[Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee Vice-Chair

2014-05-25 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Affiliations Committee has selected Greg Varnum as its vice chair for the next year. He ran on a platform of helping the committee improve communication with the WMF Board (and other stakeholders) and shifting the committee's work

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread edward
On Fri May 23 23:06:32 UTC 2014 Wil Sinclair wrote: The trash talk. . . Most of the concerns I've heard about WO involve the snarky, personal comments that are front and center in the forums. On Sat May 24 21:33:07 UTC 2014 David Gerard wrote: It's a festering pit of spammers, trolls and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 May 2014 01:11, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote: Thanks, David, and I agree 100% that there's a lot that I can only learn by participating. That's one reason I'm here. :) I've also been uploading sound loops to Commons, and I'm working on a few new articles on various pet interests of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread edward
On 25/05/2014 12:16, David Gerard wrote: The main thing to keep in mind is that, even when the community members are being INFURIATING IDIOTS (and almost certainly considering you an infuriating idiot in turn) - that what we're doing here is actually making the world a better place, dot by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The main thing to keep in mind is that, even when the community members are being INFURIATING IDIOTS (and almost certainly considering you an infuriating idiot in turn) - that what we're doing here is actually making the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Wil Sinclair, 25/05/2014 02:00: why are so many contributors, admins, and upstanding members of the WP community going there to discuss issues instead of talking through them in places like this forum? *ding don* false dichotomy bell rings: why are so many discussing about wiki stuff on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: I've read your replies and I understand what you're saying (succinctly summarized by you as ,Wil!=LilaWil!=WMF), but what you're saying and what your actions are saying seem to be in contrast. If you want to get involved with Wikimedia, by all means, that would be great. But

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC recommendation round 2 announced

2014-05-25 Thread Lodewijk
Thanks for the much more detailed reasoning and feedback! This actually gives a good insight why decisions were taken as they were and a major improvement compared to previous rounds. Lodewijk 2014-05-25 0:12 GMT+02:00 Tonmoy Khan tonmoy...@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I thank you all for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread Wil Sinclair
*ding don* false dichotomy bell rings: why are so many discussing about wiki stuff on Facebook? Or in person with their family? Or or or or or? Besides knowing for a fact that we're not discussing anything like this in our family for obvious reasons, I don't know whether they are being

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread Wil Sinclair
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The main thing to keep in mind is that, even when the community members are being INFURIATING IDIOTS (and almost certainly considering you an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread
On 25 May 2014 17:04, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote: Besides knowing for a fact that we're not discussing anything like this in our family for obvious reasons, I don't know whether they are being discussed on Facebook or elsewhere. But I do know that they are being discussed quite

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-25 Thread Nathan
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote: And this conversation is getting pretty repetitive, isn't it? Yep! Remember that some of the harsher reactions here have more to do with WR/WO than you. Hope the long string of uniformly negative reactions on the list haven't

[Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia?

2014-05-25 Thread Yves Z
Hello, Where can I find recent presentations about Wikimedia and what each of the main projects is for? I visited outreach.wikimedia.org but didn't see slides or overviews. Thanks! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia?

2014-05-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
What's the intended use? I may have one that will work. Write me offlist with details. :) pb — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On May 25, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Yves Z zyzz...@outlook.com wrote: Hello, Where can I find recent presentations

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia?

2014-05-25 Thread Yves Z
For a small public talk to let people know how to use the different projects -- what they can post and what they can find. Maybe a screenshot from an interesting feature/subproject on each. 20-30 slides. Thank you. From: pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 14:44:03 -0700 To:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia?

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Peel
For info: the relevant Commons category for Wikimedia slide decks is at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_presentations ... but that's a bit of a mess (e.g. no ordering by date, and videos are mixed in with slide decks), so it may be tricky to find what you need there...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia?

2014-05-25 Thread Yves Z
Thanks, is there a way to search Commons by date-range or by file-type? I see pdfs, are there odp or ppt decks also? From: em...@mikepeel.net Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 00:14:37 +0100 To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia? For info: the