Hi all,
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2017 which is being held in
Montréal, Canada on August 11–13, 2017 are now being accepted. Applications
are open until Monday, 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full
scholarship will cov
Hi all,
Last week's update was late, this one is early - the Foundation staff are
together this week for the Developers Summit and All Hands meeting the next
two days, so we'll be doing more stuff face to face, learning and sharing.
So, with no further ado:
As I mentioned in past updates, we have
If it is decided not to host these materials on a wiki, whether for
copyright or any other reasons, then someone (either in the Office or
a volunteer) should be designated to retain a copy privately. That
way, he or she will be able to upload it later if the copyright status
or policy changes in t
Thank you for bringing this up, Yann. Some relevant context is that Meta
Wiki users considered permitting such files on Meta Wiki a year and a half
ago, and decided not to. The electorate was not very big (14 votes, total),
but it was carefully considered, with compelling arguments made on both
sid
Hi,
I would like to get more opinions about what to do with files such as
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Education_and_WGIG.pdf
This is a draft from a United Nations conference which mentions Wikipedia
(the first and only AFAIK), and as such, an important historical document.
It doesn't ha
That's a great news!!
Thanks,
Nabin
Wikimedians of Nepal
On Jan 11, 2017 11:33 PM, "Rogol Domedonfors" wrote:
> Rupert,
>
> A Happy New Year to you too. I don't see why my personal motivation for
> asking this question would come into it. The request is to publish the
> overall product roadm
Rupert,
A Happy New Year to you too. I don't see why my personal motivation for
asking this question would come into it. The request is to publish the
overall product roadmap to the community, for the community to collaborate
with the WMF on planning the future products. That does not sound to