Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-27 Thread Dennis During
Why not test-run the process on my favorite project - or yours? We should get started. I am skeptical of the quality of judgment without a foundation of facts. At Wiktionary we have two main definition evaluation processes, one dependent on citations to which interpretative judgment is applies.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-27 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:06 AM Dennis During wrote: > > Who is the judge? Are we going to join Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al as > the new press barons? All of our work on the projects necessarily involves making judgments. As a movement we have largely decided that editors on individual

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-27 Thread Dennis During
Excuse for what? Whatever process is used needs to have integrity to be accepted. We are supposed to be inclusive and transparent, right? On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 15:15 David Gerard Forgive me, but this is coming across as hopping from excuse to excuse. > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 18:03, Dennis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-27 Thread David Gerard
Forgive me, but this is coming across as hopping from excuse to excuse. On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 18:03, Dennis During wrote: > > It is important that any wiki process be applied fairly. In this case I > think the Croatian wiki cannot be the first to have a new process applied. > I hope that the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-27 Thread Dennis During
It is important that any wiki process be applied fairly. In this case I think the Croatian wiki cannot be the first to have a new process applied. I hope that the process that Gerard recommends has been validated in some way that meets with broad, nearly universal approval. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018

[Wikimedia-l] Call for Applications: 2019 Ombuds Commission

2018-11-27 Thread Karen Brown
Hello all, *I know that this is a second call, and I apologize for the potential bacn , but it's very important to me that we grab as wide a pool of OC applicants as we can, so I want to re-draw people's attention to it. * It's coming close to time for annual

[Wikimedia-l] [2018 Annual Report]- Open Foundation West Africa

2018-11-27 Thread Joy Agyepong
Dear Wikimedians, I am pleased to share with you all our 2018 Annual Report as per the requirements of AffCom. The report covers the entirety of our projects and exciting activities over the period. Do enjoy the read! Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, We have a database with all the citations of all Wikipedias. That database is integrated in wikidata as we speak. What we should do is eat our own medicine and compare sources on the same subject when the subject is controversial. Our overriding policy is for Wikipedia to have a neutral point

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group

2018-11-27 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to develop Wikipedia in Tatar into most popular content portal of the Tatar-language internet; to grow

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group

2018-11-27 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] the Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to promote Wikipedia and its sister projects and expand the Wikipedia community in the DRC. Please

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry

2018-11-27 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to encourage the growth, development and dissemination of educational content in multiple languages, with a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group Nigeria -Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018

2018-11-27 Thread Olushola Olaniyan via Wikimedia-l
Dear all, Apology for the mixed up. Kindly see the URL below: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2017-2018#Media_coverages Thanks. for your understanding. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:50 PM Cornelius Kibelka < cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello

[Wikimedia-l] [AffComWikimedia-l] WikiDonne Report 2017/2018

2018-11-27 Thread camelia boban
Hello friends. Is a pleasure for me to share with you WikiDonne's annual report refering to activities we've done from November 2017 to November 2018. Please feel free to do any comments or suggestions here or on the talk page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group Nigeria -Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018

2018-11-27 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
Hello Shola, is there also a link to this report? Best regards Cornelius On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 13:32, shola ishola via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear all, > Trust you are well. > > The above abject refers. > > We are glad to share our Annual Activities Report FTY

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group Nigeria -Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018

2018-11-27 Thread shola ishola via Wikimedia-l
Dear all, Trust you are well. The above abject refers. We are glad to share our Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018  with you.  We welcome your  observations, comments and words of encouragement (if necessary)  . Best regards, Olaniyan Olushola The President Wikimedia User Group

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Launch - Tues 28th November

2018-11-27 Thread Joseph Seddon
Minor correction! The date should have read: Tuesday 27th November :) Many Thanks Seddon On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:36 AM Joseph Seddon wrote: > Hey all! > > I wanted to send a quick reminder that our English language fundraiser is > officially launching tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 28th