Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-09-03 Thread Pine W
Yes, I think it is the case that Fundraising and other organizations (like the WLM coordinators, Wikimedia Italia, and Community Resources / FDC) were working from different playbooks. But now that Fundraising has agreed to change their plans, I think we should give them some breathing room, especi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-09-03 Thread Peter Southwood
Who set the targets that will now not be met, how were they decided, and when were they set? I must assume that WLM annual project was not taken into consideration by these planners. Cheers, P -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-09-03 Thread Maria Cruz
Hi Pine, Thanks for bringing this up. We have actually talked with Asaf and Sati about possible ways in which the CCD initiative could inform toolkit development, in order to make sure to keep them relevant, specially for emerging communities. One of the things we want to do is user testing of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-03 Thread Trillium Corsage
Response to Peter Southwood's question. Are the investigators acting in bad faith? Does a mob know it is a mob, or is it that the people in it have lost the capacity for self-critical and analytic thought? On the one Orangemoody article I've been able to review so far, Bosch Sensortec (https://

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 35 -- 02 September 2015

2015-09-03 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-02/Special_report News and notes: Flow placed on ice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-02/News_and_notes Discussion rep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-03 Thread David Goodman
Trillium, they were not writing to " bring the apparently self-submitted but failed drafts of articles of persons, organizations, and businesses up to compliance with Wikipedia standards ". They were mostly posting the same rejected article, supplemented sometimes by references that made it look m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-09-03 Thread Pine W
I just want to respond to this point in particular: "Postponing the Italian fundraising campaign means for the first time in at least 4 years, the fundraising team will not be meeting a target. The team will pick up extra work in October to make up for work missed in September. It's not possible t

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Invitation to WMF August 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, September 3, 18:00 UTC

2015-09-03 Thread Praveena Maharaj
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. -- Forwarded message -- From: Praveena Maharaj Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:55 AM Subject: Invitation to WMF August 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, September 3, 18:00 UTC To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-03 Thread Yongmin Hong
2015. 9. 3. 오전 6:00에 "Trillium Corsage" 님이 작성: > > The Orangemoody network seems to have been providing a service: bring the apparently self-submitted but failed drafts of articles of persons, organizations, and businesses up to compliance with Wikipedia standards and get them live, then accept a p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-09-03 Thread Pine W
In my travels in the L&E workshop pages, I can't recall seeing a reference from the toolkits to the CCD initiative pages, and I am hoping to see links from CCD pages to the toolkits as the latter are built out. I have encouraged L&E to design toolkits with new or emerging communities in mind, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-09-03 Thread Asaf Bartov
I'm glad you like it. What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already interfacing with L&E? Have you noticed the Resources sections, in particular? A. On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W" wrote: > In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage > the p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-09-03 Thread Pine W
In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as well as the Learning Patterns Library. Thanks, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

2015-09-03 Thread Pine W
If WMF decides to completely remove Superprotect and the Board's forthcoming policy prohibits the reintroduction of Superprotect without Board authorization, I won't object to that outcome. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.