[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

2017-07-07 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language. Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-07 Thread Chris Keating
Hi Robert, > > > > Simply highlighting the ~1 page of arguably controversial stuff in a 67 > > page document is also unlikely to be optimal, because it creates a biased > > and misleading impression of the whole document, and gives the impression > > (accurately or not) that one's main interest i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-07 Thread Chris Keating
Hello Rogol, > > > > Whether the staff concerned feel it's a good use of their time to respond > > in detail on Meta or on this email list, who knows. There is always a > > judgement call to be made about what it's helpful for staff to spend > their > > time replying to. However, if I was in thei

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-07 Thread Robert M. Fernandez
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Chris Keating wrote: > > > Simply highlighting the ~1 page of arguably controversial stuff in a 67 > page document is also unlikely to be optimal, because it creates a biased > and misleading impression of the whole document, and gives the impression > (accurately o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-07 Thread Rogol Domedonfors
Chris On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, you wrote: > > Whether the staff concerned feel it's a good use of their time to respond > in detail on Meta or on this email list, who knows. There is always a > judgement call to be made about what it's helpful for staff to spend their > time replying to. H

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Publicpolicy] Wikimedia Sverige vs. the Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS)

2017-07-07 Thread Alex Stinson
Well bummer. I hope that you can figure out a good lobbying next step. Cheers, Alex On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:41 AM, John Andersson wrote: > Today we received some bad news in Sweden. The Swedish Patent and Market > Court ruled against Wikimedia Sverige in a lawsuit filed by Visual > Copyright

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group

2017-07-07 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to support the community of Cameroonian Wikimedians and to promote the Wikimedia projects in Cameroon. Please join me in cong

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Odia Wikimedians User Group

2017-07-07 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Odia Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to bring together contributors to Odia-language Wikimedia projects, as well as individuals who contribute to other Wikimedia projects

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-07 Thread Chris Keating
Dear Rogol, On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Rogol Domedonfors wrote: > > 1: Surely the audit is of interest to those with whom the Foundation wishes > to communicate, which includes the donors, who are paying for it, and the > volunteers, whose work is being presented to the world at large in wa