Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)

2013-03-29 Thread ENWP Pine
Hi Jessie, Thanks for following up. I think Gayle will be responding to this thread also, but she is a little busy right now as I think we can all understand. In the meantime, I hope that you add to your list of all places receiving movement funding resources any major projects within WMF.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)

2013-03-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:30 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: In the meantime, I hope that you add to your list of all places receiving movement funding resources any major projects within WMF. I think the situation with AFT5 repeating some errors from IEP which were well

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)

2013-03-29 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:30 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: May I ask, if you're working on things like the Learning Portal, what are Frank and other people within the programs and evaluations group working on? I'm interested in seeing a list of the current initiatives, what

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Round 1 Individual Engagement Grantees

2013-03-29 Thread Siko Bouterse
Hi all, I’m happy to announce the first round of Individual Engagement Grantees today! The Wikimedia Foundation makes a variety of types of grants, many of which focus on groups and organizations. Individual Engagement Grants exemplify our commitment to increase support to individual contributors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
She has been to every country in Latin America and the Caribbean except Brasil. Why not Brasil? :'( :p welcome, and come to Brasil!!! On 28 March 2013 23:06, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: Good point, Florence. Is it like if we hired someone for a education position

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Matthew Roth
I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :) On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: She has been to every country in Latin America and the Caribbean except Brasil. Why not Brasil?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Isarra Yos
One needn't stick around to establish and maintain a working framework for such - continuity and knowledge-transfer sounds rather like consistency and maintainability of code, where if it is well set up and documented anyone can reasonably pick up where someone else left off. So to ensure

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)

2013-03-29 Thread Fae
On 29 March 2013 19:22, Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu wrote: I'd rather be interested in how do you measure _success_ (this question is for everybody) By hard outcomes measured against the original project goals. Turning that around - projects should not be funded without

[Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Strainu
Hi, I've just seen an OTRS ticket asking why isn't Wikipedia giving its pages for adoption (like when you adopt a page and your name ends up on its cage or something like that). I've moved the ticket to the donations queue, but I was wondering if this has ever been discussed/considered before.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Thomas Dalton
Where would their name go? If it's anywhere more prominent than the names of the volunteers that wrote the article (which anything on the article page itself would be) then it doesn't really seem fair... On Mar 29, 2013 10:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just seen an OTRS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
[off-topic] 2013/3/29 Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :) Yeah, we are going to have the world cup, where millions and millions of reais (our currency) is going to corrupts to an event that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Deryck Chan
Because we've decided that [[WP:Ownership of articles]] is wrong, and wronger if there's financial sponsorship involved. On 29 March 2013 22:36, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just seen an OTRS ticket asking why isn't Wikipedia giving its pages for adoption (like when you adopt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Mono
Yes, but it might be nice if we could let people pay trusted editors to improve articles (without a COI and with a NPOV) that normally wouldn't get attention. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hkwrote: Because we've decided that [[WP:Ownership of articles]] is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Mar 30, 2013 12:55 AM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but it might be nice if we could let people pay trusted editors to improve articles (without a COI and with a NPOV) that normally wouldn't get attention. Would that be nice? I think that would be very harmful...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Mono
How so? On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 30, 2013 12:55 AM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but it might be nice if we could let people pay trusted editors to improve articles (without a COI and with a NPOV) that normally wouldn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Mar 30, 2013 1:04 AM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote: How so? It would be completely against our culture. Wikipedia is a volunteer written encyclopedia. You would end up with a two-tier system of paid editors and unpaid editors. There would inevitably be a lot of conflict between those

[Wikimedia-l] Crisis of conscience Fwd: [REA]

2013-03-29 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Good example. -- Forwarded message -- From: Barbara Dieu beeonl...@gmail.com Date: 2013/3/27 Subject: [REA] Crisis of conscience To: rea-li...@googlegroups.com Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz In a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-29 Thread Thomas Morton
It's a weird dichotomy. I've spent several hundred quid on source material for my current topic area. I could easily have spent several grand. Paid editing is a major issue, because it conflicts with our culture But if someone were able to buy my sources then it would be of huge benefit. And,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Béria Lima
[still in the off-topic] *Hopefully hotels will be so expensive that Wikimania here won't be sustainable*. Don't need to hope no more, hotels in Rio are *already* expensive because of the World Cup renovations (is impossible to get a hotel in Rio for less than 100 USD/night) and I do believe