Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:26 AM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Erik, Sue, Frank, et al, Can you please say more about

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-16 Thread Lodewijk
Dear Bishakha, I apologize for intruding in this discussion again as someone who has little knowledge about India and the local situation. I'm myself not entirely convinced that there always should be one organization in one country - but it is out default. That means that if we want to drift

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-16 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Dear Bishakha, I apologize for intruding in this discussion again as someone who has little knowledge about India and the local situation. Your reply made me happy - it broadened the conversation beyond borders, it

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread aude
On Nov 16, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. Thank you Moushira and Barry for the replies.

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-16 Thread Sue Gardner
The campaign for this year is officially launched! Congratulations to everyone working on it, and fingers crossed for its success. Thanks, Sue -- Forwarded message -- From: Sue Gardner don...@wikimedia.org Date: Nov 15, 2011 2:30 PM Subject: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

[Foundation-l] Thanking volunteers

2011-11-16 Thread Lodewijk
I sent this request already to some internal lists, but here there might also be quite some volunteers who have a thought about thanking volunteers :) It is almost the end of the year, and that is for me personally usually a moment to thank some of the people I have worked with over the past

[Foundation-l] Office Hours - 18 November, 22:00 UTC

2011-11-16 Thread Oliver Keyes
Hey guys! As you've probably all come to expect, there'll be another office hours session on the article feedback tool this week at 22:00 UTC (and yes, I have checked :P). In attendance will be the full gamut of devs, managers and technical specialists! Also me. It's deliberately scheduled to make

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For reasons that are not in line with the policies of the language committee, the board has refused to allow new projects in any of the Arabic languages. The Language policy allows for this; the WMF board will decide if it will allow a new project when there are issues, any issues. The

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:26 AM, aude

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Muhammad Yahia
Relying on a group to tutor as well as maintain a website doesn't work very well when we branch from an internet forum to an encyclopedia. The Public Policy Initiative team did an amazing job in setting up standards for education programs and has expanded well in North America and

[Foundation-l] TVTropes policies: No such thing as notability.

2011-11-16 Thread Kim Bruning
Sometimes it's interesting to read policy from other wikis that are currently successful and growing and see how they differ from WP. eg: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability or: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikipediaUpdater

Re: [Foundation-l] TVTropes policies: No such thing as notability.

2011-11-16 Thread geni
On 16 November 2011 18:35, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Sometimes it's interesting to read policy from other wikis that are currently successful and growing and see how they differ from WP. eg:         http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Hi; Could I humbly suggest the image in the campaign notice bar be moved to the other edge of the page. In the default skins, the article title has every appearance of being a caption to the picture. This can cause un-intended comic effects, depending which article one is reading. -- --

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Morris
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 21:03, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; Could I humbly suggest the image in the campaign notice bar be moved to the other edge of the page. In the default skins, the article title has every appearance of being a caption to the picture. This can

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.comwrote: I don't want to open a hornet's nest, but as someone who has actually lived most of his life in the middle east, I couldn't disagree more. Local dialects/languages have not been formally adopted in any Arabic speaking

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-16 Thread rupert THURNER
hi bishaka, many thanks for your mail! i like a lot your attitude a lot to challenge constantly existing ways of thinking and doing :) just let us look on others. our exemplary organizations are not doing anything different than in all other countries: * http://www.indianredcross.org/sb.htm *