On Mar 15, 2014 7:47 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Oliver Keyes, okeyes at wikimedia.org, wrote:
... I don't see a lot of things that are likely enough to succeed
and provide a meaningful impact
That's how I feel about copyright term extension efforts, but we have
been
On 13 March 2014 11:32, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Mostly, thoughthis just really feels like it is trying to take the
Wikimedia community down a path that has nothing to do with our core
objectives, and to turn us into just another advocacy group. I'm not
interested in that.
+1
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ah. Yeah. The job of the Community Advocacy bit of Legal and Community
Advocacy is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's need
within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community for legal
stuff.
... it's probably more effective to make your point directly
Any volunteer organization with a several year history of declining
volunteer participation should refocus its external advocacy efforts
from actions which can benefit no more than a small percentage of
volunteers to those that will
Oliver Keyes, okeyes at wikimedia.org, wrote:
... I don't see a lot of things that are likely enough to succeed
and provide a meaningful impact
That's how I feel about copyright term extension efforts, but we have
been standing firm on them as a defense against the very real
possibility of
The job of the Community Advocacy bit of Legal and Community
Advocacy is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's
need within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community
for legal stuff.
That department and its predecessors have hired professional attorneys
to lobby on
On 14 March 2014 00:54, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
The job of the Community Advocacy bit of Legal and Community
Advocacy is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's
need within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community
for legal stuff.
That
: Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:50 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey
In order to address issues with previous volunteer community surveys
which may not have included options able to maximize volunteer
attraction and retention, I have drafted a revised volunteer
Is there ... an explanation which explains what it all means?
It's an attempted improvement on the policy survey at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey
A survey about the importance of various policy issues ... given the
highest priority by our community.
If you are having trouble
On 13 March 2014 05:13, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there ... an explanation which explains what it all means?
It's an attempted improvement on the policy survey at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey
A survey about the importance of various policy issues ...
In addition to Risker's comments, which I agree with 100%, I would further
request that any future survey of users be designed and supervised only by
someone with extensive expertise and experience in the field of survey
methodology. Many previous surveys that have been done by the Foundation
Hi Craig,
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Craig Franklin
cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote:
In addition to Risker's comments, which I agree with 100%, I would further
request that any future survey of users be designed and supervised only by
someone with extensive expertise and experience in
... list of causes - many of which have little or no correlation with
anything even vaguely related to the operation of the WMF, its core
philosophies, or its purpose
If the Trustees have decided that we should pay advocates, why not
advocate on the issues most likely to increase the
On 13 March 2014 22:38, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
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If the Trustees have decided that we should pay advocates,
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Link to the board of decision to pay advocates please.
Risker
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Link to the board of decision to pay advocates please.
The most recent seems to be the approval f the Annual Plan as per
On 13 March 2014 23:56, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Link to the board of decision to pay advocates please.
The most recent seems to be the approval f the Annual Plan as per
Ah. Yeah. The job of the Community Advocacy bit of Legal and Community
Advocacy is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's need
within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community for legal
stuff. Their job is not to advocate for reduction in public school class
sizes or more
In order to address issues with previous volunteer community surveys
which may not have included options able to maximize volunteer
attraction and retention, I have drafted a revised volunteer community
survey which includes new items and top-scoring components of the
previous community survey:
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