Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner

2012-03-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi everyone: Just a reminder of this. :-) Starts in about 90 minutes. ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia financials - bank fees

2012-03-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I'm not in accounting, but my guess is that this involves Paypal processing fees for the fundraiser... pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:38 PM, En Pine

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner

2012-03-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
/IRC_office_hours . Hope to see you there! ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

2012-02-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, to my knowledge. An exception: I'll be damned if I'm writing out Oliver Keyes, God of Delphi, Sol, and all Ethereal Planes Known and As-Yet Undiscovered because I won't grant - in writing - my own claims to those ethereal planes. :-) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
in that regard, but that's pretty much what Philippe and Maggie have already been doing, and what they'll continue to do in a structure that's set up for growth. Sometimes we have a tendency to speak in management lingo when we should be choosing simple, crisp clear terms. Honest feedback

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
it. :) There's a reasonable discussion in the page, linked from the announcement. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to respond

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
), and an IRC chat tomorrow to kick that off. :) pb On Thu Feb 9 18:32:42 2012, Mono wrote: I think the better question is what will this department actually do? On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
on recruiting new users and on the annual fundraiser. Is that a fair assessment? Peace, love metadata On 10 February 2012 13:23, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbying were not mentioned at all. What

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
globally (such as helping Chapters to write submissions to Government policy reviews etc.). This will leave Zack's existing department to focus on recruiting new users and on the annual fundraiser. Is that a fair assessment? Peace, love metadata On 10 February 2012 13:23, Philippe Beaudette

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On 2/9/12 7:19 PM, Andreas K. wrote: Well, what do fighting for content online, providing information about legislative initiatives worldwide that impact online content and censorship, and support the advancement of legal conditions that enable unimpeded access to information online,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
prefers to maintain the minimum data possible for the shortest period of time. Thanks, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Beria, MZ, and anyone else who said three months is correct. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to respond), go to http

[Foundation-l] Call for moderators

2012-01-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
moderation role, nudging people on topic, etc), would you please let me know by private email (philippe{{@}}wikimedia.org)? Depending on how many people express interest, I'll figure out how we proceed forward. Thanks! pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the extent that you're willing to cede government affairs to them? pb On Sun Jan 22 12:48:50 2012, geni wrote: On 22 January 2012 18:00, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez

[Foundation-l] Announcement: Maggie Dennis to continue with WMF

2012-01-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to fluently speak Philippe and translate that to real-people talk. As User:Moonriddengirl, she is the maven of copyright for English Wikipedia, and has well over 100,000 edits. In short, she's a rock star. Maggie will continue to report to me. Best, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
To be very clear: a decision on English Wikipedia to take action on this is not binding on Commons. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On 1/3/12 9:28 AM, Tom Morris wrote: they want it so that if they've donated it removes the banner for the rest of the fundraiser. This was in place for this year's fundraiser, so I'm surprised to see it on the list... pb ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Asking for permission [1] to use WMF resources

2011-12-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi Everton - I forwarded this to the legal team (legal{at}wikimedia.org). They should be in touch. :) ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org 2011/12/21 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
during the markup process, this is a nice way to do it. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 14

Re: [Foundation-l] Is a research banner advertising of the evil sort?

2011-12-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, the banner was switched on by Philippe (using his WMF account). ~Nathan Yep. After an official request from the Research Committee through their assigned staff liaison, Dario. :) pb

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It's quite back now, also at Geoff's request. :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: It was deleted

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It was deleted at Geoff's request; I'm not certain if he's intending to reformat it and put it back up somewhere else, or what, but I'll add it to my list of things to talk about with him. We'll try to get the info up in some format, of course. :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

2011-11-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
that script? :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: I ask Sue and Philippe again: WHERE ARE THE PROMISED RESULTS - BY PROJECT?! First, there's a bit of a framing difference here. We did not initially promise results by project. Even now, I've never

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Point of clarification (and this is to help someone else answer, because i don't know)... MZ, are you talking about grants such as Stanton, where the WMF is the recipient, or grants such as to the chapters, where the WMF is the granting partner? pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
of the English language projects (regrettably the only language I speak) weekly. I try to hit the others with Google translate regularly, but not quite that. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Usage statistics alone, I would agree with you. But stats can tell so much more than just what you get from usage stats. For instance: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm (be sure to scroll all the way to the right). ___ Philippe Beaudette Head

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: And about culture - forgive me - but the only people who seems concerned about remove those images from wiki are AFAIS american. I'm sorry, no. This is just untrue. I wonder, would the same sentence be acceptable if you

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
As soon as I've got it to give and the comments have been anonymized, absolutely. I do not yet have a full feed that meets our needs for analysis beyond what's already done. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:04 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Sep

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 03:08:54PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Hello, On German language Wikipedia, there is a poll of its own.

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 04/09/11 14:33, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Please note that the results are not final: although the vote count is, and has been finalized, the analysis of comments is ongoing. It would be nice to see a correlation

[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
the vote count is, and has been finalized, the analysis of comments is ongoing. Posted on behalf of the committee, Philippe ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It is absolutely not part of the resolution, nor is it in the design plans that I've seen. My understanding is that it works like current categorization, in that anyone can participate. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x

Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Extreme cases can be used to justify any action Victor. Why live in a country where every month new powers are being given to the police to control the population? Who wants to live in that country? I'm amused. The first

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It's really truly not going to be a matter of weeks, I can assure you of that. It may be, at best, a couple of extra days, but we've all been vote checking as we go. I don't anticipate much delay if any. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, and so, yeah, mistakes will be made. But let's just wait and see on the timeframe, shall we? No doubt an extension will have to happen, but what's the harm? If we take a couple extra days to announce the results, who has been harmed? pb Philippe Beaudette

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter referendum

2011-08-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:23 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/16 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com [...] While the eligibility rules would encourage wide participation, the 1) click on sitenotice 2) read wall of text 3) go back to your own

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter referendum

2011-08-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yeah, we're troubleshooting now... thanks. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Tel: (415) 839-6885 | x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org | www.wikimediafoundation.org On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:23 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov wrote: 2011/8/16 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com [...] While

Re: [Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list

2011-08-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
As Jay is away for a while, I checked… 381. pb Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Tel: (415) 839-6885 | x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org | www.wikimediafoundation.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Nemo wrote: We need Jay Walsh to check the number of subscribers; they're probably still

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Actions

2011-07-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Huib, If you'd send the details to le...@wikimedia.org (and copy me), I'm sure we can take a look at it. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Actions

2011-07-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Dan, Legal-en goes to the legal queue. Legal@ goes to the legal department. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes

[Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-06-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum shortly. For the coordinating committee, Philippe (WMF) Cbrown1023 Risker Mardetanha PeterSymonds Robert Harris ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

[Foundation-l] IRC Office Hours

2011-06-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects ...

2011-05-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
? Tom, one other thing to keep in mind: the messages will need to be translated. So you might make sure that TransCom is in the loop. :-) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, but I'll ask her to give me a 30,000 foot overview and report back here. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: For those who deal with the BLP queue on OTRS, how serious is the problem of BLP attack pages, whether rising to the level of defamation or not? I know the problem exists -- anyone who edits can see it -- but I'd be

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

2011-05-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: It could well be that an image banner does improve click through and (in the case of the fund raiser) donations... but I can't find any actual A/B tests (or any other tests) to see if this is actually the case

[Foundation-l] Ombudsman commission

2011-04-30 Thread Philippe Beaudette
volunteered for this position. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

[Foundation-l] Change to Ombudsman commission

2011-04-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
position open. If you wish to self-nominate, or to nominate another user, please feel free to send me their name. Best wishes, pb [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
as well) had a hide button on it (an X in the right hand corner to turn it off). pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

2011-03-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Philippe Beaudette wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Sue Gardner wrote: Ah, Sarah, I don't think that's particularly fair. Bear in mind we've just published a strategic plan

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
sincerely regret the way I put that. I was attempting to say that the choices that we make have real world consequences. I used a terrible example to point that out. Philippe ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with Sue Gardner today

2011-02-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
of the 24th, if you're in our end of the world.) The agenda is open, and as usual times and conversion links can be found on Meta at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! -- Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
be a terrible idea. pb -- Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Foundation-l] OTRS identification policy

2011-02-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
not sent identification yet, feel free to defer doing so. For those who have provided ID, we will destroy it on request (we may have to again obtain it if we finally conclude that retention is necessary). pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-01-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
own standards and rues. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://donate.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] Ombudsman Commission

2011-01-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
for a term of one year. Thanks, everyone! Best, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-01-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to see steps towards opening this up. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:04 PM, James Alexander wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote: I actually tried to set up a geonotice to catch Wikipedian Antarcticans a while back, but unfortunately the convergence of the longitude lines kind of threw it

[Foundation-l] Fundraising banners

2010-12-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
edit (the contribution phase of the campaign). Now let's go celebrate! Zack Exley Philippe Beaudette Megan Hernandez ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
doing that (and we'd appreciate any suggestions), we'll start putting a process into place. Centralnotice is like a cannon... we don't want to direct a notice at millions of people, if the party isn't ready for the potential end result. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head

[Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
the fundraiser messaging is controlled by the Foundation. Enjoy the respite :) Philippe ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
clean-up work. in addition, we have almost no information on a donor if she moves, for instance. We began a test mailing about recurring giving today, and expect to roll it out more widely over the rest of the week. Philippe On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: Phillipe

[Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
donation. You can sign up for recurring giving at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en With this, we gleefully delete the “sorry, we don’t have a recurring donation option” template from our email response systems. Best wishes, Philippe ___ Philippe

[Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

2010-12-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
this approach. To anyone we offended, I offer my personal apologies. With that said, the banners are being changed right now - they'll say Wikimedia. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to acknowledge that... pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
For the record, MZMcBride did let me know that he was sending a nastygram. So while I disagree with his language choice, he checked first. \ pb On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Newyorkbrad wrote: I agree that this factual error should be corrected (as we have told it is being corrected), but

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Appeals for individual editors strikes the right chord

2010-12-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
it to the chapters so they can create their new landing pages. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

2010-12-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I think it's important to point out that we are, in fact, using community input :) For instance, the editor appeals that are being tested were suggested by community members and written by community members pb On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:39 AM, KIZU Naoko wrote: Time to use community input?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

2010-12-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, with the introduction of a graphical thermometer treatment (though this is all fairly preliminary) This is exactly as we expected... we knew there would be several phases to this campaign, and we're hitting them just almost exactly when we thought we would. :) pb ___ Philippe

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
accountable to donors. You can't. I guarantee it. Philippe ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010-11-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
We tested Kartika earlier this week, and it did very very well. So we're putting together a campaign based around editor appeals, and many of the folks we have are not ... well, people who look like me. So I'm very happy about that. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners inviting people to edit.

2010-11-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I believe that's in the works as well :) ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http

[Foundation-l] Report from Day 1 of technical testing

2010-11-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
-fundraising IRC channel. Philippe ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http

Re: [Foundation-l] And if I don't understand Dutch?

2010-11-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi Ziko, Each chapter builds their own landing pages, but they have the ability to build them in as many languages as they'd like. In this case, it looks like the Dutch didn't build a German language landing page, and so it defaulted to their dutch language one. :) pb On Nov 12, 2010,

[Foundation-l] Fundraiser 2010: A memo to the community

2010-11-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
of the fundraiser. If you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear them. Please tell me what you think by writing to don...@wikimedia.org. Best wishes, Philippe PS - for ease of linking, the full text of this memo is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Updates#4_November

[Foundation-l] Christine Mellenberndt joins Reader Relations at WMF

2010-10-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
urgent that you need me to see, feel free to continue to send it directly to me. Christine will bring questions to me, early on, but I've found her to be a quick study and think she'll be fully functional almost immediately. Best wishes, Philippe Philippe Beaudette

Re: [Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
and general office-related help. Best, Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http

Re: [Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:46 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: Who are they and what do they do? Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati Community Associate

[Foundation-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
at the meta pages about the fundraiser: /http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FR2010. Your involvement is not just appreciated - it's crucial. Thanks for sticking through this email - join us in discussion and help us beat the Jimmy appeal! Thanks, Philippe [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
difficult to do. Generally it's an RfC on Meta. I think the last major contentious one was the Simple English Wikiquote? Once the decision is made, then it falls to the developers to actually flip the switch or say the magic words, or do whatever it is they do to close the project. Philippe

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-09-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to be on. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours with Danese Cooper

2010-09-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Just a reminder to all that this is upcoming. It's in #wikimedia- office on the freenode network: see below for connection info. Philippe On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Hi all, Danese Cooper, the open source diva, and Wikimedia's very own Chief Technology Officer

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Danese Cooper

2010-09-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
option is http://chat.wikizine.org. As always, the chat will be logged and put on meta for those who are unable to join. Look forward to seeing you there! Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program

2010-09-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi all, Please see the Wikimedia Blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ) for an exciting announcement about the Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program, and the first recipient of a Fellowship, Steven Walling. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-09-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to be on. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Update on the fundraiser

2010-09-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-08-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Just a reminder this is in about 11 hours :) Philippe On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Hi all, Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours this Tuesday (Aug 31) at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PT, 19:00 ET) on IRC

Re: [Foundation-l] CHANGE TO OFFICE HOURS

2010-08-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi all, Due to some technical issues, Sue will not be doing office hours today. Taking her place will be Barry Newstead, the Chief Global Development Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. Same time and location. :) pb On Aug 31, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Just

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fundraising] Banner testing again

2010-08-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
: Hi Philippe, thanks for this advance warning. I dont recall you sharing this before on this list, but I probably just missed it. Just for the record, I assume you will also be testing the geolocation? (which is most likely one of the things that can break, and therefore important to test

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-08-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Just a reminder about this, about 13 hours from now. :) On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Hi all, Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PT, 13:00 ET) on IRC in #wikimedia-office

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-08-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. Philippe

[Foundation-l] Fwd: IRC meeting to discuss fundraiser

2010-08-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Reminder .. the first of these two IRC sessions will take place in a few hours... :) pb Begin forwarded message: From: Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Date: August 9, 2010 8:22:49 PM PDT To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: IRC

[Foundation-l] IRC meeting to discuss fundraiser

2010-08-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
freenode's webclient, which is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/ or by using your favorite IRC client. Hope to see you there! Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human

[Foundation-l] Community Hiring banner

2010-08-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
will stay live for the immediate future. Thanks, everyone, for your feedback during this trial. Please look for people that would be interested in sending us their information for jobs in the community department. Best, Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader

[Foundation-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

2010-07-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
design this thing. If you're willing to help, would you add your name to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Committee ? We'll be in contact - soon - to get things started. Thanks, Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

2010-07-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hiya - I asked Danese, who is currently buried under about 20 pounds of stuff after coming back from Wikimania, to further describe the stakeholder database. Her response is: Sue has a vision for a single master database that tracks our interactions with movement participants. It is

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

2010-07-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I had understood that another use-case for such a database is when an external organisation (e.g. a local library in some city where there is no Chapter presence) asks for a local Wikimedian to come and give a presentation or advice on how to get involved. Such a database (IIRC) should

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