Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I don't know what to think about a final community consultation on a specific name. Personally I suspect that I wouldn't be able to say anything about it, as with https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Update_9_December. Speaking of which, I wonder how the problems

[Wikimedia-l] Speakerthon update

2014-01-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
[Cross-posted ] The Speakerthon event is in progress at New Broadcasting House in London: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BBC_voice_project We've already added sound files to the (English) Wikipedia articles on Tim Berners-Lee, Agnetha Fältskog, Stanley Johnson and Adrian Lester,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-18 Thread ???
On 17/01/2014 21:24, Michael Peel wrote: Doesn’t that break the terms of the CC-BY license, if not legally then at least ethically? The right to distribute copies is built into the license, no? How? If I upload a video to some hosting site and license it CC-BY what does that have to do with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-18 Thread Andrew Lih
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: The RFC is non-neutral and unnecessarily complex. With so much experience of trying these things, along with full time expertise, I would hope for a more sophisticated approach from in-house WMF teams. It is actually very complex

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-18 Thread
On 18 January 2014 13:41, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: The RFC is non-neutral and unnecessarily complex. With so much experience of trying these things, along with full time expertise, I would hope for a more sophisticated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Speakerthon update

2014-01-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 January 2014 11:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Speakerthon event is in progress at New Broadcasting House in London Everything is gong well. If people want to help from home (or the pub), then the files in:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Speakerthon update

2014-01-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You may like this as well :) http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikidata-wendy-hall-computer-scientist.html Thanks, GerardM On 18 January 2014 17:10, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 18 January 2014 11:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Extensive feedback from WMDE to the FDC process

2014-01-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I take it that the Hungarian chapter takes part in this? I know other chapters do as well.. Thanks, GerardM On 17 January 2014 18:17, Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.huwrote: My five cents here would be that how about considering longer time frames for grants, like 2-3-5

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-18 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 01/18/2014 10:53 AM, Mark wrote: A consensus has emerged that MP4 video uploading can be enabled on Wikimedia Commons without major legal or technical problems (see [here] for details) While there are a great deal of interesting philosophical and ethical questions surrounding this issue,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] This weird trick will make readers of mass messages on village pumps happier

2014-01-18 Thread MZMcBride
James Forrester wrote: On 17 January 2014 08:24, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote: Put it inside the following HTML tag: div lang=en dir=ltr class=mw-content-ltr Your important notification. /div Of course, it's not great to have to remember to write it every time, so if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] This weird trick will make readers of mass messages on village pumps happier

2014-01-18 Thread MZMcBride
(Sorry about the mis-post. Apparently hitting command-return sends a message... who knew.) James Forrester wrote: On 17 January 2014 08:24, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote: Put it inside the following HTML tag: div lang=en dir=ltr class=mw-content-ltr Your important

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee election results

2014-01-18 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear Community Members, I am happy to let you know that the Affiliations Committee has finished the selection process for the 2014-2015. The six sitting members of the Committee will be joined by four very experienced Wikimedians: - Cynthia Ashley-Nelson - Kirill Lokshin - Galileo