[Wikimedia-l] Re: Highlight reel of Wikimedia ESEAP Conference 2024 in Malaysia

Hello Butch, It was a great conference—apart from Wikimania (and Wikimania is in a class of its own)—the best conference I've been to in the last year, and the reel is a good reflection of the conference. Kind regards Victoria On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM Butch Bustria wrote: > Hello, > >

[Wikimedia-l] WikiWomen Lunch today

Hello Women+, We have a WikiWomen Lunch today 12.15 - 13.15 in Lviv. Get ready to have some fun! Take part in the first-ever WikiWomen bingo. Grab your plate with lunch and come to join us for networking. -- Kind regards, Victoria Victoria Doronina <ht

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

why the trustees mostly remain silent beyond the official WMF communications—the conversations inevitably devolve into personal attacks. I’ll see some of you at Wikimania, where I hope to continue the conversation in person. Kind regards, Victoria Victoria Doro

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

ich was 13 short > of the required amount > > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 at 19:09, Victoria Doronina > wrote: > >> Hello Paulo, >> >> Thank you for your kind words and your support. It's one thing to believe >> that at least a few of my voters support my ac

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

hout a Charter in the form it was proposed. > > Again, thank you very much for your courage and integrity, Victoria, I > hope you get reelected to the BoT. > > Best, > Paulo > > Victoria Doronina escreveu (sexta, 19/07/2024 > à(s) 09:34): > >> Hello Galder, >>

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

Hello Galder, > As the BoT is, by definition, the one directing what the interests of the WMF are, we must conclude that > all the so-called community-elected and half of the affiliated-elected voted against the interests of their > represented. What interests did they vote for? That's the questio

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [BoT-MCDC decision discussion]

Hi Farah, I'm personally committed "to catalysing a successful charter + council". This doesn't mean that I support the ratification of the current Charter or that random people who try to pressure me to vote "yes" are achieving their goal, not the opposite of it. Best Victoria On Tue, Jun 25,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [BoT-MCDC decision discussion]

Hello Samuel, I agree with you that we need ...to iterate towards a working charter and council, this year, with shorter cycles and public collaboration and broad participation by individual contributors, not just affiliates. However, you may be unaware that Lorenzo, Rosie and I are in the proce

[Wikimedia-l] Conversation with the Trustees on 27 June

Kind regards, Victoria Victoria Doronina <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/dr-victoria-doronina/> Trustee Sister Projects Taskforce Lead Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which

[Wikimedia-l] Re: A new Signpost issue is out

bottom of that article. I encourage you > to post corrections. > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 4:53 AM Victoria Doronina > wrote: > >> Hello Andreas, >> >> >In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between >> Russian wikis >> >> ht

[Wikimedia-l] Re: A new Signpost issue is out

Hello Andreas, >In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-05-16/In_the_media It's sad to see the Signpost perpetuating the hoax that "[Russian Wikipedia] articles on the Russian invasion of Ukr

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Outcomes from the March Meeting for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

As far as I remember, yes—the rate of account creation, making more than one edit, and the percentage of unreverted edits was higher than in other methods. I think this is a spectacular result and a completely unexpected source for the new editors. On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:47 AM Samuel Klein w

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Yoruba Wikipedia: the most widely read Wikipedia in Nigeria.

That's great to hear, Mikaeel! Victoria On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:24 AM Mikaeel Sodiq wrote: > We are excited to inform the global community that Yoruba Wikipedia hits > 25 million views in 2023. This groundbreaking achievement makes Yoruba > Wikipedia the most read Nigerian language Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group 2023 annual report

Hello Kolya, Thank you for sharing your UG's report with us. I know how difficult it is to continue any Wikimedia activity in the current Russian political situation, and I think you are brave to do it. It was also great to meet a few of your group members in Tbilisi. Keep up the good work VIc

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sister Projects Committee

Hello Frosty, In case you missed some comments on the page, the Board of Trustees has initiated Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Sister Projects Task Force - Meta The Sis

[Wikimedia-l] Re: wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)

This is great; thank you for developing the project! On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 10:30 PM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Hello everybody, > > we are pleased to announce that Wikifunctions is up and running at > http://www.wikifunctions.org/ > > After a few days in read-only, the website now has some limite

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Ukraine's annual report for 2022

Hi Anton, Thank you for the report. I am amazed at the resilience of Ukrainian wikimedians, please keep up the good work. Kind regards On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:36 AM Anton Protsiuk < anton.prots...@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m writing to let you know that Wikimedia Ukraine publi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: activity around Wikimedia.ru

Hello Yaroslav, Let me get this straight: there's no links between the Russian Wikipedia community and the chapter, but you left the Community because of your conflict with the Director of the chapter? I disagree that the chapter is useless. Yes, it was always used by Medeyko for personal gains,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2021-2022 now on-wiki

Andreas, You write > Victoria did say last year, on-wiki: The Board has done its main job - changed the CEO. > (Victoria did not provide further details when asked.) I want to say that T

[Wikimedia-l] Re: May 12⋮14⋮17 >> Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference

es in a one-to-one email. Kind regards On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 4:40 PM Željko Blaće wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:38 AM Victoria Doronina < > vdoron...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hello Zeljko, >> >> I see that this is the second call for proposa

[Wikimedia-l] The Board Sister Project Faskforce is looking for the voluntary advisory members

until 15 May 2023. Please share this email with anyone you think may be interested in applying. Best regards, Victoria Doronina Wikimedia Foundation trustee, Lead of the Wikimedia Foundation Board Sister Projects Task Force (SiPTaF) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Re: May 12⋮14⋮17 >> Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference

Hello Zeljko, I see that this is the second call for proposals. Are you interested in the Board representation on the conference? For example, a Q and A session? Best VIctoria On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:01 PM Željko Blaće wrote: > In the countdown to the last 30 days to QW2023 > we will be p

[Wikimedia-l] onversation with the Trustees coming up on 23 February at 19:00

watch?v=cGqHUrpU2Rc>. Request the Zoom link or submit your questions ahead of time by emailing ask...@wikimedia.org. You can also request interpretation up to five days before the event by emailing ask...@wikimedia.org. Thanks, see you there! Best regards, Victoria --

[Wikimedia-l] Re: (OT) In search of Wikimedians from Lithuania / Vilnius

Greetings, You may try User:Homo ergaster - Wikipedia , who is an admin on Lithuanian Wikipedia. Also, as you may know, many Belarusians had to relocate to Lithuania after 2020 protests. So if your question does not explicitly concern the Lithuani