On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 11:52, wrote:
> This year, we (that is, the WMF using movement funds) spent a huge amount of
> money ($4.5 million) just directly donating to external knowledge equity
> funds.
>From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund:
> Many of the barriers that preve
I see part of the problem is that the contributors experiencing the biggest
impact arent the same contributors that have the technical skill sets to
appropriately explain and understand the issues. Adding the the need to be
able to make comparisons between other areas of need just makes its even
mo
Hi Asaf,
That's a good response, but I'm not sure it provides a practical way
forward. How can volunteers bring this issue to the attention of the WMF
leadership to get the allocation of the time of Wikimedia staff who can
take ownership implement changes here?
Presumably emails on these lis
Writing in my volunteer capacity:
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022, 08:43 Amir Sarabadani wrote:
Honestly, the situation is more dire than you think. For example, until a
couple months ago, we didn't have backups for the media files. There was a
live copy in the secondary datacenter but for example if due to
“until a couple months ago, we didn't have backups for the media files”
How is that even possible?
Cheers, Peter
From: Amir Sarabadani [mailto:ladsgr...@gmail.com]
Sent: 01 January 2022 08:42
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