[Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Italia board and activities

Dear all, on April 7th, Wikimedia Italia held its general assembly, where a new board has been elected. It is composed as follows: * Lorenzo Losa, President * Valerio Perticone, Vice-president * Carlo Benini, Secretary * Saverio G. Malatesta, Treasurer * Maurizio Napolitano I wish to thank Federic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

Hey Anthony. These emails came in on a weekend and today is a WMF holiday so I suspect it'll be another 24 hours or so before a response will get to you :) Regards Seddon On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > I suspect that the ad in question is a freebie, donated throu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

I suspect that the ad in question is a freebie, donated through Google's giveaway to nonprofits. If so there is a point person at wmf (maybe in the advancement team?) Who would know for sure. Philippe On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anthony Cole wrote: > I just googled "wikipedia" again and tha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

I just googled "wikipedia" again and that ad is still coming up. (I’m in Australia.) When you click the link in the ad it takes you (via 3 or 4 redirects) to wikipedia.org with the word "paid" in the search field. [1] When you click the Google maps link below the ad text it, strangely, takes you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Craig Franklin passed away

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:56:43 -0700 Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > Through various other channels I learned the unfortunate news that Craig > Franklin (Lankiveil) has recently passed away. He was a board member > (2011-2015) and president (2013) at Wikimedia Australia, longtime English > Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Craig Franklin passed away

This is deeply saddening. Craig was lively, funny and smart. I will miss him. Dj On Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 19:57 Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > Through various other channels I learned the unfortunate news that Craig > Franklin (Lankiveil) has recently passed away. He was a board member > (2011-2015

[Wikimedia-l] Craig Franklin passed away

Hi all, Through various other channels I learned the unfortunate news that Craig Franklin (Lankiveil) has recently passed away. He was a board member (2011-2015) and president (2013) at Wikimedia Australia, longtime English Wikipedian and admin, and until this month he was member of the Ombudsman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

> "🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥The encyclopedia of evil people, by evil people, for evil people 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥" + a winking Baphomet as logo I think we should change this to our slogan just for April 1. On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Vi to wrote: > "🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥The encyclopedia of evil people, by evil people, for evil > peop