Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-06-01 Thread Pine W
> > Since Wikimania is in July this year, perhaps we could do this there: > public review & discussion of the WMF plan, and using that as a point of > departure to continue the discussion of planning from WMCON. > > Sam > I would suggest not using this WMF proposed plan as a starting point for tal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
So, there are two good news and one bad. The most important good one is that efforts made by James, Philippe and EC have given [global] results. It's always good to hear that we depend less on weather conditions and more on our own work. So, thank you for your good work! :) I agree with you in re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Anders Wennersten
Just a clarification on numbers In James (internal) table enwps share of total number of eligible votes is 35,4% Participation rate state from enwp was 8,26% against mean for all 9,5%. If enwp is excluded the participation rate for all of the rest stands at 10,2% Enwp users also include user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-06-01 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
hi, as a stepping down FDC member I agree with Risker only to some extent. Sure, the FDC will have trouble with capacity for evaluation of the whole plan. However, it is possible to single out some programs (the famous 'core' vs. 'non-core' division) and comment on them. It does not exclude a prof

[Wikimedia-l] FDC annual plan grant recommendations for 2014-2015 Round 2

2015-06-01 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
Hello Wikimedians, The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to help make decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1] Just before the Wikimedia Conference, the FDC met in Berlin to deliberate on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC annual plan grant recommendations for 2014-2015 Round 2

2015-06-01 Thread Risker
Minor correction: Appeals are due JUNE 8, 2015, not July 8.[1] Risker/Anne (Member of the FDC) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information#Calendar On 1 June 2015 at 11:18, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > Hello Wikimedians, > > The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
Richard, the spreadsheet could be found here [1]. I compiled the list again and it assumes some more languages (Swahili, for example), which didn't have numbers in Ethnologue's data. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > For some of these languages, I don't see that this makes sen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Lih
Milos, thanks for initiating the conversation. Some random thoughts: 1. The efforts to get people to vote are admirable, and it's heartening to see the participation trend reversed. 2. There is the elephant in the room which is the recent DE Mediaviewer/super protect issue. It is possible it has

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimédia France] Conflict of Interest policy

2015-06-01 Thread Emeric Vallespi
Dear movement fellows, Here is my (almost) monthly email ... You can find on Commons everything the new policy of Wikimédia France about its Conflict of Interest and governance: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gestion_des_conflits_d%27interets_Wikimedia_France.pdf So far, we did not h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: > 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of > activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg. > Facebook, GLAM-oriented lists, etc) have emerged in recent years. > Let me second this. My department i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: > >> 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of >> activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg. >> Facebook, GLAM-oriented lists, etc) have emerge

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Ed Erhart
Hi Milos, I think you're overestimating the importance of this list, which is read by only a small portion of the community. Many people in the wider community have no idea this exists. Best, --Ed On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa

[Wikimedia-l] Election Announcement

2015-06-01 Thread Pharos
My fellow Wikimedians, I am pleased to announce the results of the most vital exercise in democracy in the Wikimedia movement for many years: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MCOTM The first-ever Meta Collaboration of the Month (MCOTM) for June 2015 will be on the [[Events]] page, a particularly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > * MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't > matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of > translated most used messages, the new one won't get a project if it's > not 100%. (The situation as it is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees" wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > * MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't > > matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of > > translated most used messages, the new one won't g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread MZMcBride
Ed Erhart wrote: >I think you're overestimating the importance of this list, which is read >by only a small portion of the community. Many people in the wider >community have no idea this exists. Sort of. :-) In absolute numbers, of course the total number of list subscribers/readers is a very sm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread MZMcBride
Milos Rancic wrote: >On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees" wrote: >>"Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language >> editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language >> are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.) > >[...] > >It would be useful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, "MZMcBride" wrote: > > Milos Rancic wrote: > >On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees" wrote: > >>"Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language > >> editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language > >> are all translated already? (Maybe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread MF-Warburg
Actually, currently the requirements are - most-used messages for the first project in a language - continuing translation activity on TWN for all others Am 02.06.2015 02:18 schrieb "Milos Rancic" : > On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, "MZMcBride" wrote: > > > > Milos Rancic wrote: > > >On Jun 2, 2015 00:39,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: > > > >> 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of > >> activity or interest, as other regional or specializ