[Wikimedia-l] Re: Register now for Wikimania 2024!

Hello once again! We've received a few reports about technical issues with the website, and the staff members are working to resolve them promptly. Thank you for your patience and apologies for the inconvenience! We'll let you know once the registration is available again! Cheers, śr., 26 cze

[Wikimedia-l] Register now for Wikimania 2024!

Hello everyone! The Core Organizing Team would like to invite you to register for Wikimania 2024 . *You can register for the in-person event by 26 July *and for the online event anytime. Wikimania 2024 will be held 7–10 August, in person at t

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board requirements

On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 3:14 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > That said, I would understand that some members of the board vote against sharing power. This is a non-sequitur, as Nat's letter was not a vote against sharing power. It proposed first steps to share power,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board requirements

Thanks for your explanation, Chris. This sounds like enlightened absolutism, and deeply undemocratic. There's no such thing as "the organization's interests", as the organizations are not sentient beings and don't have will. Organizations ar

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board requirements

(not a lawyer but I have a decent grasp of how this works in common law countries) Board members are required to always vote in the best interests of the organisation they are on the board of. More specifically, for nonprofits, they are required to vote in the best interests of the mission of the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: A Case for Mobile Editing

Hi Pavan. Thank you for sharing. I've also written about mobile editing [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss/Mobile_editing]. I agree that mobile editing is important to consider and I appreciate your perspective on this. On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 9:33 a.m. Pavan Santhosh via Wikimedia-l <

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Invitation to Celebrate Women Learning Debrief Session: 27 June, 12pm - 1:30pm UTC

Thank you Masana for the reminder. Looks exciting see you tomorrow! Cheers! Ruby On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 12:44 PM, Masana Mulaudzi wrote: > Just a reminder of this session tomorrow, it promises to be an engaging > space and we look forward to hearing from some of our esteemed organizers > on th

[Wikimedia-l] A Case for Mobile Editing

Dear Fellow Wikimedians, I am Pavan Santhosh, an Indian Wikimedian and Program Manager of CIS-A2K. [1] I would like to share my recent article on the Diff titled "A Case for Mobile Editing ". The article discusses the challenges fa

[Wikimedia-l] Board requirements

James Heilman wrote: > All boards members of the WMF are required legally to represent the > interests of the WMF no matter how they arrived on the board. However, when > I was on the board I viewed the best interests of the foundation and > community as inseparable as neither can succeed without

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New Supervisory Board

Dear fellow Wikimedians, On Saturday, June 22, Wikimedia Deutschland held its 29th General Assembly in Berlin, again in a hybrid format. Our members elected a new Supervisory Board, which consists of 7 elected members: * Alice Wiegand (chair, re-elected) * Friederike von Borries (treasurer)