Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations to MediaWiki Farmers User Group for being approved as a Wikimedia User Group

I was thinking of ways that farmers might use Wikipedia. Or maybe that a group of them had gotten together to improve our content in Ag. Or something. But no such luck... On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:59 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > *sigh* I was hoping the farmers had united > > but good l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation global ban policy

MZMcBride mzmcbride.com> writes: > I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security > theater, but it seems fairly clear that these bans are for show and not > much else. It's the Internet, after all, and anyone can edit. Under the > current scheme, the best we can do is try to revert and p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation global ban policy

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:30 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > Within the past week, Philippe has posted the Wikimedia Foundation's > global ban policy: . Raised it on the WMF board noticeboard, as I would expect they develop & approve something

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation global ban policy

Hi. Within the past week, Philippe has posted the Wikimedia Foundation's global ban policy: . The page itself is interesting, as is some of the related discussion on the talk page. I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security theat

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2015 Call for submissions

// Sorry for crossposting // Dear all: We would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels, tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2015 to be held in Mexico City in July 2015. Note that the deadline is the February 28; we hope to have final decisions about the program by early

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Creation of a scientific committee

Hi Everyone, Last Thursday, we held our onboarding meeting for our advisory board. Some pictures available there : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Conseil_scientifique_de_Wikimedia_France A quick summary, we provided the membres with all the printed documentation we have about Wikimed