Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-05 Thread Jan Kučera
Yes we might be on the same page, but I think in general the employment policy of WFM is one big disaster. I would rather not make a research on productivity among the employees... which from a POV of an outsider seems to be a tragedy looking at the site usability and editing stats... I have no ide

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-05 Thread Oliver Keyes
So, Erik is best suited to speak for Engineering's wider attitude on personal development: I can only talk about what I've seen, as an editor who slaves away for our evil and monolithic overlords in their goal to obliterate the commu-crud. wrong meeting. I've been not just impressed but humbled an

[Foundation-l] Call for POTY Helpers and Translators

2012-04-05 Thread Mono
Hello Wikimedians, On behalf of the 2011 POTY committee, I'd like to invite you to join the Commons Picture of the Year (POTY) Committee. A volunteer-led contest, Picture of the Year is run by an organizing committee of Wikimedians. Since its inception in 2006, thousands of photos from people all

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-05 Thread Birgitte_sb
Please don't assume I disagree with all objections that could possibly be made, just because I disagree that the one's which had been presented so far are very significant. I sincerely hope this program is more decentralized then any other program being run right now. It seems to be in rather ea

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-05 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Leinonen Teemu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have > been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. > The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers > of the

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-05 Thread Andrew Lih
That's great stuff, thanks for letting the list know about it. Wikipedia may have squashed Encarta and put Britannica on its heels, but those encyclopedias had the edge with multimedia and professional infographics. This is a wonderful step forward and I hope we'll see more. -Andrew On Thu, Apr

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-05 Thread Steven Walling
On Apr 5, 2012 2:42 PM, "Jan Kučera" wrote: > > You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow > remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public... > you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US > now) go to the full globe instead.

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-05 Thread Oliver Keyes
On 5 April 2012 22:42, Jan Kučera wrote: > You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow > remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public... > you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US > now) go to the full globe instead... >

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-05 Thread Jan Kučera
You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public... you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US now) go to the full globe instead... 2012/3/28 : > It seems to me that there has been a

[Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-05 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers of the class wrote about the class and its results in here: http://

Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ for fundraising resolutions

2012-04-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 5 April 2012 19:14, phoebe ayers wrote: > Thanks, Tom. If you don't mind I'll put it on the talk page; this will > likely require some discussion to answer. By all means. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ for fundraising resolutions

2012-04-05 Thread phoebe ayers
Thanks, Tom. If you don't mind I'll put it on the talk page; this will likely require some discussion to answer. -- phoebe On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Thanks for posting this, Phoebe. My question about what you intend to > do over the next 3 years wasn't answered. Th

Re: [Foundation-l] Board of Trustees resolutions

2012-04-05 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Dear all, > > The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with > the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the > meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published > here: > > htt

Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ for fundraising resolutions

2012-04-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
Thanks for posting this, Phoebe. My question about what you intend to do over the next 3 years wasn't answered. There is no point waiting three years and then re-evaluating the situation if you haven't made sure you've been gathering all the right information during those 3 years and that you are c

[Foundation-l] FAQ for fundraising resolutions

2012-04-05 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, The Board has published a Q&A document around the recently published fundraising & funds dissemination resolutions. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ It's quite long -- sorry! -- but hopefully informative. Note that we did this as everyone was tr

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-05 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, Le 5 avril 2012 05:04, Jürgen Fenn a écrit : > Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein : > >> Ziko: >>> what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut >>> down such >>> a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest money >>> in promoti