Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-01 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2016-01-01, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 28 December 2015 at 23:29, Patricio Lorente > wrote: > >> This decision creates an open seat for a community-selected Trustee. The >> Board is committed to filling this open community seat as quickly as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Basics

2015-12-31 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-12-31, Milos Rancic wrote: > Today I've learned about it. And I think WMF is the perfect prey for such > initiative. > > I hope nobody sane is taking that seriously. You might want to check out some discussions surrounding the Wikimedia Zero initiative. Saper

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2015-12-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-12-29, George Herbert wrote: > I do think the Foundation legal staff need to review and some fix to > this needs to be made to the Bylaws for the future, either overriding > 617.0808 (1) (a) 2. explicitly or by making community vote explicitly > the recall

[Wikimedia-l] Anyone from Wikimedia community going to OSCE Freedom of Media conference Internet 2013 in Vienna? (Feb 14-15)

2013-02-05 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, next week OSCE Freedom of Media Representative holds Internet 2013 conference in Vienna: http://www.osce.org/event/internet2013 I was wondering who from Wikimedia community will be coming to the event? Marcin Cieślak saper at plwiki ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, top Internet brand in Germany

2013-01-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Tobias church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote: On 01/17/2013 02:08 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Wikipedia has debunked Google as top Internet brand in Germany, according to http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/yougov-brandindex-2012-das-sind-die-lieblingsmarken-der-deutschen/7643120.html We're

[Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, I just wanted to share my feelings: I went to en.wikipedia.org today and I saw this message on top: Happy Birthday Wikipedia! 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop My first impression was: I think I mistyped the URL... //Saper ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica

2012-06-07 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote: On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas OSM, for the most part, is not. Yes, TomTom is dying.  But it's