Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020

2020-08-05 Thread Ivana Madžarević
Hi Kiril, Thank you for making this possible. I know it's not easy to adapt to our new reality and it's challenging and bold to organize an online event like this. I'm definitely thinking about good examples of our work during the pandemic and probably will submit that. I've also forwarded this c

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Clinic #006 digest posted; #007 taking place

2020-08-05 Thread Asaf Bartov
Dear Wikimedians, I have posted the digest for Wikimedia Clinic #006, which was held in Spanish.[1] An English version of the digest is also available[2], to allow non-Spanish speakers to benefit from the summary too. I encourage those of you interested in hearing some voices from our Spanish- (

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Clinic #006 digest posted; #007 taking place

2020-08-05 Thread James Heilman
Thanks for these clinics. An amazing initiative. J On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:05 AM Asaf Bartov wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > I have posted the digest for Wikimedia Clinic #006, which was held in > Spanish.[1] An English version of the digest is also available[2], to > allow non-Spanish speaker

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: Briefing postponement

2020-08-05 Thread Zack McCune
Hello everyone, Heather Walls and I met with much of the Board of Trustees on July 28 to provide an informational briefing on the strategy, history, and process of the Brand Project. We shared milestones up until recent events including the RfC, the open letter, and the survey (but not survey resu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

2020-08-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Sorry I'm coming to this discussion a bit late, but I'd like to underline a slightly different aspect of the concern that Phoebe raised: > It concerns me that, at least in the high-level project proposals I've > seen (I haven't been tracking this closely, and haven't read the academic > papers) I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: Briefing postponement

2020-08-05 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Thank you Zack for the update, much appreciated. Best regards Yaroslav On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:14 PM Zack McCune wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Heather Walls and I met with much of the Board of Trustees on July 28 to > provide an informational briefing on the strategy, history, and process of >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: Briefing postponement

2020-08-05 Thread Mohammed Bachounda
Thanks Zack, Hoping that it will boost the project. Best Le mer. 5 août 2020 à 20:49, Yaroslav Blanter a écrit : > Thank you Zack for the update, much appreciated. > > Best regards > Yaroslav > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:14 PM Zack McCune wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Heather Walls and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

2020-08-05 Thread Samuel Klein
I applaud this idea. Preferably a language family with a large community of practice, 'minority' in the sense of coverage and support by modern tools and scaffolding, not in the sense of limited use. We used to have a roughly weighted list of major world languages by (spoken, written; primary, sec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: Briefing postponement

2020-08-05 Thread Zack McCune
Cheers Bachounda & Yaroslav! On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:47 PM Mohammed Bachounda wrote: > Thanks Zack, > > Hoping that it will boost the project. > > Best > > Le mer. 5 août 2020 à 20:49, Yaroslav Blanter a écrit : > > > Thank you Zack for the update, much appreciated. > > > > Best regards > > Ya

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

2020-08-05 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:01 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > We used to have a roughly weighted list of major world languages by > (spoken, written; primary, secondary) and how well covered they were by wp > (articles, contributors). Is there something like that still? > I think you might be referring