Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...

[Ilya Korniyko]

Dear Geoff,

Wikimedia Ukraine had a pleasure to work with you and your team closely at
least twice: when we wanted to make sure that our community event logo was
not breaking any rules and when we had a dispute about Wiki Loves Monuments
in Crimea. The last issue was really big to tackle amiably, of course, but
it is not a point here. I am grateful for your work and I wish you good
luck in the new chapters of your life!

Best regards,
Ilya Korniiko
Chair, Wikimedia Ukraine

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Christophe Henner 
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I've said that privately earlier this week, I'll reiterate publicly.
>
> Thank you so much for all the work and energy you've put into the movement.
>
> I'm sad we won't get to work much together but really happy you've Landes a
> great job at YouTube!
>
> Of course any time you come to France I'd be happy to have you and enjoy
> wine in my garden :)
>
> Good luck for your new job, even though you won't need any!
>
> And I hope we'll get to see you roaming in the movement in the future.
>
> Christophe
>
> Le 14 juil. 2016 3:31 PM, "Ziko van Dijk"  a écrit :
>
> > It was always great to talk to you, Geofff, I wish you all the best
> > and hope that from time to time the Wikimedia movement still will
> > enjoy your advice.
> > Ziko
> >
> > 2016-07-14 13:01 GMT+02:00 Michael Jahn :
> > > Working with you has been a brief but nonetheless great pleasure,
> Geoff!
> > > Wishing you all the best for this exciting change!
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Michael Jahn
> > > Leiter Kommunikation & Partnerschaften
> > > Head of Communications & Partnerships
> > >
> > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > > Tel. (030) 219 158 260
> > >
> > > http://wikimedia.de 
> > >
> > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu
> der
> > > Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
> > >
> > > 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 27/029/42207.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2016-07-13 23:25 GMT+02:00 Geoff Brigham :
> > >
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General
> > Counsel
> > >> and Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation. This job has been amazing,
> > and
> > >> I’m grateful to everyone who has made it so rewarding. It's now time
> > for my
> > >> next step, so, in the coming days, I will be leaving the Foundation to
> > >> pursue a new career opportunity.
> > >>
> > >> I depart with such love for the mission, the Foundation, the Wikimedia
> > >> communities, and my colleagues at work. I thank my past and present
> > bosses
> > >> as well as the Board for their support and guidance. I stand in awe of
> > the
> > >> volunteer writers, editors, and photographers who contribute every day
> > to
> > >> the Wikimedia projects. And I will hold special to my heart my past
> and
> > >> current teams, including legal and community advocacy. :) You have
> > taught,
> > >> given, and enriched me so much.
> > >>
> > >> After my departure, Michelle Paulson will serve as interim head of
> > Legal,
> > >> and, subject to Board approval, Stephen LaPorte will serve as interim
> > >> Secretary to the Board. I can happily report that they have the
> > experience
> > >> and expertise to ensure a smooth and professional transition.
> > >>
> > >> The future of the Foundation under Katherine's leadership is exciting.
> > >> Having had the pleasure of working for her, I know Katherine will take
> > the
> > >> Foundation to its next level in promoting and defending the
> outstanding
> > >> mission and values of the Wikimedia movement. Although I'm delighted
> > about
> > >> my next opportunity, I will miss this new chapter in the Foundation's
> > >> story.
> > >>
> > >> My last day at the Foundation will be July 18th. After that, I will
> > take a
> > >> month off to recharge my batteries, and then I start my new gig at
> > YouTube
> > >> in the Bay Area. There, I will serve as Director of YouTube Trust &
> > Safety,
> > >> managing global teams for policy, legal, and anti-abuse operations. As
> > with
> > >> Wikimedia, I look forward to learning from those teams and tackling
> > >> together a new set of exciting, novel challenges.
> > >>
> > >> For those who want to stay in touch, please do! My personal email is:
> > >> geoffrey.r.brig...@gmail.com.
> > >>
> > >> With respect, admiration, and gratitude,
> > >>
> > >> Geoff
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[Wikimedia-l] [ASBS] Vote of Wikimedia Ukraine

[Ilya Korniyko]

Dear colleagues,

The Board of Wikimedia Ukraine has decided to share the reasoning behind
this choice. First of all we are very thankful to everyone who decided to
nominate themselves, and to those, who supported them, translated their
statements and helped to spread the word.

Secondly, we decided to have 5 places rated. It was a very hard choice to
make, we have tried to talk to the candidates and to evaluate their
relevant experience and knowledge.

Our first choice remains Nataliia Tymkiv, our Deputy Chair and Treasurer.
We have shared our reasoning here: wmua:Рішення Правління №30/2016 від 4
березня 2016

.

Our second choice is Christophe Henner, Chair of Wikimédia France Board,
deputy CEO of a large organization. He has led WMFR through governance
crisis.

Our third choice is Osmar Valdebenito, first President of Wikimedia Chile,
former Executive Director of Wikimedia Argentina (and also in charge of
their reorganization), Iberocoop Network General Coordinator, current
member of Funds Dissemination Committee.

Our fourth choice is Jan Ainali. Unfortunately he was the only candidate we
did not get a chance to have a proper talk with, but he has relevant
experience (Board member of Wikimedia Sweden, chapter’s ED from 2013 to
2016).

Our fifth choice is Lodewijk Gelauff. While he lacks experience of working
with staff as a Board member, he has helped to organise Wiki Loves
Monuments, one of the biggest community-driven projects, so his insight can
be very useful to the Board of Trustees.

We had a pleasure to talk and listen to almost all candidates. We
identified some strong skills in every nominee, but after some long
discussions decided to support these 5 candidates, as the most balanced
ones. We think that all candidates proved that they are committed to our
Movement, and Siska Doviana, Susanna Mkrtchyan, Leigh Thelmadatter, Kunal
Mehta and Maarten Deneckere would also make sure that their unique voices
are well heard, that WMF and BoT and the Community itself can communicate
with each other better. And we think that no matter who is selected, the
Community will not stop helping the BoT to improve its work. And we are
open to discussions and cooperation, as we believe that this selection
process is only a prelude to some real changes. The two people selected
will have to keep up with the trust of a lot of people, but it does not
mean that 8 not selected yet can rest and just do nothing. We are all going
to work really hard if we care and believe in what we do.

On behalf of the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine,

Illia Korniiko, Chair
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

[Ilya Korniyko]

Dear Sam,
dear all,

It was mainly my idea that we decided to talk to all candidates.

I was under impression that we would have the opportunity to talk with all
candidates in Berlin.
I did get the reasoning that it would be too expensive to do it (in fact,
all you have to do to get to WMCON is to apply for BoT and be endorsed by
some chapter), but I really wanted to make the decision at least fairly...

If we are not interested in people who may be our future members of WMF
Board, how can we expect that they are interested in us?
There are some excellent people nominating themselves, asking for our trust
that they can do better,
but we do not know them at all. And if we are voting only based on our
personal connections, we would always vote for the same people. I thought
it was wrong.

We have struggled to find the balance between talking to people via
skype/hangouts and not doing that.
And this is the best solution we came up with.
Maybe if I did not have the idea that we are going to have all candidates
present during WMCON,
I would try to do something else... But I did have that impression.

We understand the difficulties of the process we decided to follow. I
understand the concerns.
But some crucial things about the candidates you can learn only in such a
way:
- are they willing to communicate with affiliates?
- how they answer in real life?
- how clearly they explain their thoughts?
etc.

And even the level of English is important. These people are going to
represent (to some extent) our movement.

Best regards,
Ilya /  ILLIA KORNIIKO
Chair
Wikimedia Ukraine

З повагою,
Ілля Корнійко
Голова Правління ГО «Вікімедіа Україна»
+38 067 65 66 177
http://ua.wikimedia.org

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Sam Klein  wrote:

> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:52 AM, attolippip  wrote:
>
> >
> > JFYI, Wikimedia Ukraine has not voted yet, as we wanted to talk to the
> > candidates via skype/hangouts before making the final decision [1] [2]
> [3]
> > [4] [5] [6]
> > And during Wikimedia Conference we had a chance to talk only to three
> > people.
> >
>
> Does this mean that each candidate is expected to have 40 different 1-hr
> Skype chats, one with each chapthorg?  That sounds grueling. I thought the
> value of public questions was that candidates could answer once instead of
> 40 times.
>
> Sam
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the capability to delete usernames compatible with the CCBYSA license?

[Ilya Korniyko]

Answer to the first question is very simple - C is derived from A, not
vandalized B revision.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Strainu  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Someone brought up an interesting issue: is it moral for the vandals
> to be credited as contributors to articles (especially when exporting
> the article as pdf)? After experimenting a little, it turns out that
> deleting the usernames from the history removes them from the
> contributor list.
>
> While morality is a subjective matter, a more interesting question is:
> is this behavior compatible with the CCBYSA license? Say we have
> version A of a text, vandalised in version B and reverted in revision
> C. Then version C is a work derived from version B, shouldn't it
> credit the full author list of version B?
>
> Going further, say that someone with an offensive username (or even
> just an username unaccepted on wikipedia, such as a company name)
> actually makes a valid edit, which is not reverted, but the name is
> removed from the history. Is it fine to ignore the license just
> because we find some usernames offensive? Shouldn't we instead credit
> the user *at least* with a pseudonym?
>
> Thanks,
>Strainu
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WLM] DataViz of all the monnuments in the world

[Ilya Korniyko]

Where (on the client, on the server) and how (replicated database,
Mediawiki API calls) does it process data? Because it loads the monuments
quite slow.
As this is early version (Bump to
0.0.5.)
I hope it will improve though.

It is very good that it is opensource. Not very widespread, but interesting
implementation language (Clojure), but it will be intreresting for me to
grok it, as I happen to use, not very widespread, but interesting
language too - Scala.

Ilya


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Christophe Henner <
christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Bastien Guerry, member of Wikimedia France, just sent out an email
> about a tool he developped : http://www.panoramap.org/fr/#
>
> The tool is pretty straightforward, it allows you to display country
> per country all the monuments in the world where we already have a
> picture on Commons.
>
> It still needs developement, or so he says, but it's already quite
> impressive.
>
> If you have any feedback, keep him in the loop (he's in cc of my
> email) or send him an email offlist. And if you want to help him
> improve the tool, the source code is available there :
> https://github.com/bzg/wlmmap
>
> Felt that people here would like this kinda of things :)
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Christophe
>
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