Re: [Wikimedia-l] endangered languages project

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Mathieu Stumpf < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Le 2013-05-23 19:03, phoebe ayers a écrit : > > Perhaps of interest to many Wikimedians: the Endangered Languages project >> recently launched a new layout, making it easier to find and submit >> information

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Program Re: Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

Hi Tom, I'll answer it, since it was my section and my comments. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga < t...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > I just saw now this report. Can you explain this line bellow, please? I > didn't get it. > > "Strategic direction in Brazil did

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Thanks, Gayle, for sharing this. It's interesting to read how people at other organisations in the movement came to join us. I agree with Nathan: your heart is clearly in the right place, and I promise you that the working relationships do become more comfortable (and reactions more understandable)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Hi Gayle, I just wanted to say thanks for sharing. It does help personalize the WMF to know a little more about its leadership group, and I think having a sense of the personality behind the user account will temper some of the more unmoderated members of the Wikimedia commentariat. While I might

[Wikimedia-l] an open letter to Sue Gardner

Dear Sue: Please assign someone to create community advocacy RFCs, preferably at least twice monthly. Then you would be happy and would not have to leave. You are a better Executive Director than anyone I can imagine the people on the "connectors list" might know, or you would be if you paid your

[Wikimedia-l] United Nations Summer School: Call for Applications (deadline 31 May)

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) is collaborating with EF Education First (EF) in the context of the firstUNAOC-EF Summer School , which will take place in Tarrytown, NY, USA, from 24 to 31 of August 2013. This UNAOC-EF Summer School will br

[Wikimedia-l] Translation into new languages and meeting at the NIH

A group called iDISC out of Spain has approached me regarding translating medical content from Spanish to K’iche and Q’eqchi languages. We have a Wikipedia in Q'eqchi here http://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qhapaq_p%27anqa but not one in K'iche. The second issue is that we are needing simple Spanish med

Re: [Wikimedia-l] State of the Map US, San Francisco June 7-10

Re OSM future strategy: I would be happy to talk to them and perhaps look for synergies. Jon On 24 May 2013 09:51, Tom Morris wrote: > Of possible interest to WMF staff and others in San Francisco, State of > the Map US is happening in a few weeks. > > http://stateofthemap.us/ > > Schedule: http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] endangered languages project

Le 2013-05-23 19:03, phoebe ayers a écrit : Perhaps of interest to many Wikimedians: the Endangered Languages project recently launched a new layout, making it easier to find and submit information on languages that are in the "catalog of endangered languages" that they are building. Worth a l

[Wikimedia-l] State of the Map US, San Francisco June 7-10

Of possible interest to WMF staff and others in San Francisco, State of the Map US is happening in a few weeks. http://stateofthemap.us/ Schedule: http://stateofthemap.us/schedule.html They are discussing a wide variety of things which have crossover to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects