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Re: New design for the list info page?

Thehelpfulone — 2013-05-20T17:37:09



Sure! I haven't managed to get around to making those tweaks myself, so I'd
appreciate your (and anyone else's) help. The code's at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone/Wikimedia-l  and is
generalised so that the only bits that manually need changing on a per-list
basis are:

   - "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
   the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
   - The logo:

   <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Wikimedia_logo_text_RGB.svg/200px-Wikimedia_logo_text_RGB.svg.png"
class="aligncenter"><br />

   - The "LEARN MORE" button and link:


   <p><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects"
class="link-style">Learn more</a></p>



The "Wikimedia Mailing List" can be changed by modifying "A terse phrase
identifying this list." whilst the detail about the list can be modified at
by adjusting "An introductory description - a few paragraphs - about the
list. It will be included, as html, at the top of the listinfo page.
Carriage returns will end a paragraph - see the details for more info. " in
the list admin interface.

Feel free to move the code to a more appropriate place and/or tweak as you
see fit. :-)

Re: New design for the list info page?

Quim Gil — 2013-05-20T17:04:48

Still about this:

Thehelpfulone wrote:

Can you share the source? I'm happy to try it for wikitech-announce,
tweaking it to fulfill the requests made (more accessible color schema
and subscription fields visible without having to scroll down).

Thank you!

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland monthlyreport forApril

Sandra Rientjes — 2013-05-20T09:31:10

April was a busy month for Wikimedia Nederland. Our report is available on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201304

It is also included as text in this message. We have changed the structure
of our monthly report to match our Annual Plan 2013 and our FDC application.

COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors

- Wikimedia Nederland Conferentie

Preparations have begun for the annual Wikimedia Nederland Conference which
will take place on November 2. One of the themes will be 'editor diversity'
- we are cooperating with WMDE who will be holding an international event
on that topic a week later on November 9. We are still looking for
volunteers to take charge of programming and publicity.

- Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology

A basic editing training was given to students and employees of the
National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden by volunteers Erik Zachte, Hay
Kranen and Boardmember Hans Muller.WORK: content, collaboration and
activity development

- WIki Loves Monuments

The Wiki Loves Monuments team is preparing for the 2013 competition. This
year, the focus will also be on municipal monuments and we are looking for
funds to organise a combined Wiki Loves Monuments - editor training -
publicity event in Den Haag. Wikimedia NL volunteer Els Arends published an
article in the magazine 'Monumenten' about Wiki Loves Monuments,
encouraging people to get involved.

- Wikipedian in Residence at National Library and Archives

The National Archives and National Library are going to hire a Wikipedian
in Residence, a first for the Netherlands! This promises to be the start of
a wider ranging cooperation between WMNL and these two national
institutions. Focus of the cooperation will be improving content and
recruiting editors.

- CoSyne: final presentation to European Commission

WMNL Board member Frans Grijzenhout attended the final presentation of the
CoSyne <http://cosyne.eu/index.php/Main_Page> project to the European
Commission in Luxembourg. WMNL's involvement was appreciated by the other
partners in this project.

- Wiki loves sound

Wiki Loves Sound is a new initiative to promote use of sound in Wikimedia
projects. In April, 1838 of the 2300+ sounds donated by The Netherlands
Institute For Sound and Vision were uploaded to Commons and 50+ sounds were
added to Wikipedia pages during an editathon. A Dutch spoken instructional
video about adding sounds was made.

- Wikivoyage

Field research for Wikivoyage was carried out by students of the Nijenrode
Business School. Reports and recommendations to be expected in May.WMNL:
participation and support

- The WMNL newsletter was distributed to members, donors and other
interested parties.

RESOURCES: Strong and sustainable financial position

- Finalising Q1 report

The first quarterly report following our FDC application was completed on
time.GLOBAL: International collaboration *NB: reports by WMNL volunteers,
board and staff who have attended international events can be found on the WMNL
Wiki <http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internationaal>*

- Milano Wikimedia Conference

WMNL Chair Ziko van Dijk, Treasurer Ad Huikeshoven and Executive Director
Sandra Rientjes attended the Milano Wikimedia Conference. WMNL volunteer
Lodewijk was also there on behalf of the Wiki Loves Monuments International
coordination group.

- EU policy working group meeting

On April 6 and 7, representatives of WM-chapters met in Brussels to discuss
EU-policy affecting copyright and internet freedom. Lodewijk and Romaine
represented WMNL. A full
report<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_Policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting/minutes>
of
the meeting is available on Meta.

- GLAM-Wiki

Volunteers Lodewijk, Romaine and Maarten attended the Glam WIki event in
London, as did GLAM coordinator Sebastiaan ter Burg.

- International Amsterdam Hackathon preparations

Preparations for the International Hackathon picked up pace in April with
the programme being finalised and arrangements made to support visa
applications and travel. It is expected that 140 participants will gather
in Amsterdam, May 24-26.ORGANISATION: board, management and support

- Board retreat weekend 6-7 April

Board and Executive Director attended a two-day meeting, following the
Board elections in March. Topics on the agenda were: division of tasks
within the Board, cooperation and communication, recruiting new volunteers.

- Hiring part-time staff member for finances

Tom Kisters will start work on May 1. He will work on finances and office
management.

Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland

tel. (+31) (0)6 31786379

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Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
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[Wikimedia Announcements] Advocacy Advisory Groupopen formembership

Stephen LaPorte — 2013-05-17T15:48:15

Hello all,

Are you interested in policy and legislative issues that could affect the
Wikimedia movement? If so, please join the the Advocacy Advisory Group at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors

The Advocacy Advisory Group is an open, public email list that focuses on
legislative advocacy, affiliations, and other related issues. The group
discusses these topics, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on advocacy and
affiliation actions, and shares updates on similar activities by chapters
and other organizations. Additional background is available in the
Foundation's Policy and Political Association Guideline:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Affiliations_Guideline

Many thanks,
Stephen

[Wikimedia Announcements] Hiring Community Liaisons(Contract)

Howie Fung — 2013-05-18T06:00:00

*

Hey all,

For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department
has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product
Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with
factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping
editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between
those who write code and those who write articles.

While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a
lot of promise.  We have a number of large projects coming down the
pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help
reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English
speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged.
 We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual
editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams
and focuses.

In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of
contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment
and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in
addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to
ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects.
 I’ve included the full job description below.

Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor.  We’d like to hire a
few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language
communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and
discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other
activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year.

If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette
at pbeaudette-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA< at >public.gmane.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=pbeaudette-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA< at >public.gmane.org>.
 And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about
it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly
rate commensurate with experience.  This can be a part-time role, but we’ll
need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3
months).  Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if
you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word!

Thanks.


Howie
*
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Director of Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation


*

Community Liaison Job Description

Background Information and Statement of Purpose

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering & Product Development Department is
looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community
perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the
scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part
of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer
community.

Scope of Work

Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in
particular:

   -

   Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and
   non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can
   interact with;
   -

   Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as
   a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking
   to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively,
   and recruiting them for workgroups and studies;
   -

   Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge
   about our projects, including but not limited to training
   externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their
   questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis;
   -

   Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making
   process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs;
   -

   Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of
   volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering
   programmes; and
   -

   Other duties as needed.


Requirements

Effective Community Liaisons will be:

   -

   Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our
   community within the Foundation and vice-versa.
   -

   Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to
   explain our products to different groups of users with different levels of
   technical understanding.
   -

   Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and
   views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
   -

   Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust
   these people for the relationship to function.
   -

   Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to
   execute with little to no supervision.
   -

   Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of
   others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.
   -

   Willing and able to remain resilient in the face of frustration from our
   users, in order to get the job done.


Pluses

Other positive attributes or areas of knowledge include:

   -

   Diverse language skills. While the Wikimedia Foundation communicates
   internally in English, we aim to be able to talk to our different
   communities natively.
   -

   Experience with the software development process. You will be thrown
   into teams that are actively working on new features; having a background
   that reduces the slope of your learning curve is a plus.
   - Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are
   about more than just Wikipedia.

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Re: All the lakes in Sweden

Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada — 2013-05-19T08:50:03

Thanks. I have discovered some estimations of lakes for more countries, but
no datasets.

Belarus: 11,000+
Canada: 31,752+ larger than 3 km² (2-3 million in total)
Estonia: 1,000+
Finland: 187,888 lakes 500 m² or larger (56,000 over 10,000 m²)
Latvia: 3,000+
Lithuania: 3,000+
Norway: 450,000+


2013/5/17 Anders Wennersten <mail< at >anderswennersten.se>

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New Directory of Wikimedia Hong Kong

Simon Shek — 2013-05-18T19:40:55

Dear all,

On last Friday, Hong Kong seventy-seventh Wikimedia meetup, the 3rd
Directory of Wikimedia Hong Kong was officially assembled and swore
in.

List of the new board as follows:
Rover WONG
President

Ivy WONG
Deputy President

Vincent TSUI
Secretary

Tango CHAN
Treasurer

Alexander CHEUNG
Director

Raymond HUI
Director

The Directors are expected to serve a two-year term until 2015.

--
Simon Shek
3rd Directory Electoral Affairs Committee, Wikimedia Hong Kong
Wikimania 2013

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Re: Some interesting thing about our "friend"User:Shujenchang

AddisWang — 2013-05-18T19:38:35

Deryck

仅觉事虽源于中文维基，但实为其个人问题，而此人长期活跃在其他项目，恐不利。在下只顾借此提醒他人，未顾及中文维基之影响，做法的确欠妥。感谢提醒，之后会慎重。

Addis
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Re: Some interesting thing about our "friend"User:Shujenchang

AddisWang — 2013-05-18T19:31:52

Hi Huib

Thanks for your remind at first!

I understand, but that's not how things should be concluded. "This guy from zh wiki, this thing happened in zh wiki, so it's your zh wiki stuff". I'm not talking about the problem of a project or some projects or "foundation wide problem". I'm taking about a person.

It seems I never using the word stole in "computer things". It's might be my limited writing skills let you misunderstand, but please "be careful". And he posted "personal attacks" not the "vandalism". And I believe User:Shujenchang is a male.

Stealing the account? He admitted. 

Addis

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Re: Some interesting thing about our "friend"User:Shujenchang

Deryck Chan — 2013-05-18T19:16:54

Addis:
从我来看，事情大概已经解决了，没必要小题大做。家丑不出外扬。在一个这么公开的环境里面谈论中文维基百科的小事，实在不适合。
翘仔

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Re: Some interesting thing about our "friend"User:Shujenchang

Huib Laurens — 2013-05-18T18:56:18

Hi Addis,

I'm not sure what you try to do with this e-mail, because this behavior
seems to be zh wiki only and not a foundation wide problem. This seems to
be like trowing dirt.

Secondly you say that the user "stole" the computer from a user and then
used a closed browser to vandalize Wikipedia. This is because the user says
his computer was stolen. But there is no way in earth to proof that this
was the case. (NO checkuser will be able to confirm that the user you are
blaming used somebody elses his computer to edit as a IP number).

As last you say that he / she stole the account of the ex boyfriend and
used it to vandalize Wikipedia. Why do you think it was her? Its good
possible that the ex used his account in her house or WiFi or a place where
they both come oftenly and then vandalize Wikipedia. Did a CU confirmed
that it was her computer?

The fact that the blocking user is also a CU it would be very easy to frame
somebody like this. And you don't really give any proof. So please be
careful before you destroy people's names.




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Some interesting thing about our "friend"User:Shujenchang

AddisWang — 2013-05-18T18:30:35

Hi Everyone

There may be no reason for me to post a Blocking Notification to the mail list, but this thing will absolutely let you feel shocked which I think it's necessary to reveal what kind of people working with us, and even making important decision.

User:Shujenchang, as know as User:ZH979433, who announced to quit the Chinese Wikipedia after local CheckUsers were elected. But coincidentally, the person who was strongly against the the ZHWP has local CheckUser, was checked and blocked for his disgusting and abominable behavior.

User:Shujenchang stole his ex-boyfriend's Wikipedia account and vandalize Wikipedia because of the broken relationship. By considering his announcement that forever quit ZHWP, User:BenMQ only blocked him in one month to warning. People will lose control in sometimes, it might be too unfriendly if presuming his moral quality only by this. When we thought User: Shujenchang will leave ZHWP and things turn to good, another crazy thing happened.

User:Shujenchang post personal attacks on his ex-boyfriend by using the account of User:Ltdccba when Ltdccba went to the restroom and left his laptop. By using others' trust, User:Shujenchang framed the person who took him as friend. Was checked twice, I finally understand why User:Shujenchang tried to stop the election of local CheckUser.

His account was blocked right now by User:BenMQ. But this "friend" still try to do something on Wikimedia. Please be aware of this thing, who knows who is next EX or next Ltdccba.

The first Blocking Notification: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Shujenchang#Blocking_Notification_on_ZHWP
Meta User Page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shujenchang
Voting Members of the Wikimania 2014 Jury: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014_jury
Blocking information on zhwp: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:%E5%B0%81%E7%A6%81%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7/ZH979433
User:Ltdccba's explanation: https://zh.wikipedia.org/?oldid=26580664#.E8.AF.B7.E4.B8.8D.E8.A6.81.E4.BB.BF.E7.85.A7IP.E7.94.A8.E6.88.B7.E7.AD.BE.E5.90.8D

Sorry if disturbing!

Best Wishes!

Addis Wang
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Re: Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)

Oliver Keyes — 2013-05-18T15:13:47

Whoops; sorry, all! Evidently it was a mistake to go near my laptop before
my morning coffee :).

Please ignore me; I'll be dunking my head in a barrel of water to wake up.

On 18 May 2013 15:48, Oliver Keyes <okeyes< at >wikimedia.org> wrote:

Re: Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)

Oliver Keyes — 2013-05-18T14:48:34

Howie

The person doing the email screener was meant to be me. When did this
change?

On 18 May 2013 06:58, Howie Fung <hfung< at >wikimedia.org> wrote:

Re: Is anyone motivated to lead a study/projet to integrate a "Tatoeba"-like project within Mediawiki

Jane Darnell — 2013-05-18T09:47:24

I noticed that on Commons, there is a need for sentence fragments,
such as "Portrait of a woman facing left at three-quarter length"

Though whole sentences is a major step towards machine translation,
sentence fragments might be more practical for multi-lingual project
endeavors such as Wikidata and Wiki Commons

2013/5/18, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave< at >culture-libre.org>:

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Broadcasting Wikimania 2013?

Charles Andrès — 2013-05-18T08:01:36



Wikimedia CH already set up a videoconference tools for the movement, we use it during the Education meeting in Milan and it works well.
Like all videoconf system, the bottleneck is the bandwidth of each participant.

Manuel already publish a list of the material needed for a perfect videoconf, but actually you only need a computer, a webcam and an headset (a mobile phone bluetooth headset make a perfect wireless mic).

The tools wkimedia CH choose is intend for on line teaching, it means that we have recording possibility, that box , desktop sharing (need java browser) and presentation display (open format or pdf are the most efficient)

It would be really easy to broadcast any talks or workshop during wikimania, we only need at the minimum:
-one volunteer per conf/workshop to broadcast with a computer, a mic and a webcam (not a built in, not convenient).


If there is a real demand for broadcasting the Wikimania , Wikimedia CH can coordinate the effort.


As a side note, wikimedia CH is asking from any recipient of a scholarship to provide a report about their "Wikimania" in order to share the experience with those who not attend. I think that in the future it may be fair to ask to all scholarship recipient to participate to a joint effort to make wikimania available for everyone in the wikimedia movement (broadcasting or taking minutes on ether pad)


Cheers


Charles




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Is anyone motivated to lead a study/projet to integrate a "Tatoeba"-like project within Mediawiki

Mathieu Stumpf — 2013-05-18T06:57:29

Hello,

While contributing to wiktionary, I discovered Tatoeba, a website where
you can find translated sentences, and share your knoledge with new
translation.

The project database is free (CC-by if I well remember), and the team
behind it seems very responsive: think that they made this post[1] just
because I am incorrigible curious person.

Now as our moto is "the sum of all knowledge…" I was curious to know
your opinion on integrating such a project within Wikimedia. As I
already don't have time to make all the contributions that I would like
to bring to the community, I won't be able to bring energy on such a
project. So I just share the idea, "just in case", to my mind it's
always better than drop it nowhere.

Kind regards,
mathieu

[1] http://blog.tatoeba.org/2013/05/the-story-of-tatoeba.html

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Re: Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

Dariusz Jemielniak — 2013-05-18T06:28:18

Agreed.

dj ("pundit")


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Craig Franklin
<cfranklin< at >halonetwork.net>wrote:

Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)

Howie Fung — 2013-05-18T05:58:47

*

Hey all,

For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department
has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product
Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with
factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping
editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between
those who write code and those who write articles.

While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a
lot of promise.  We have a number of large projects coming down the
pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help
reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English
speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged.
 We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual
editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams
and focuses.

In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of
contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment
and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in
addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to
ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects.
 I’ve included the full job description below.

Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor.  We’d like to hire a
few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language
communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and
discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other
activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year.

If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette
at pbeaudette< at >wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=pbeaudette< at >wikimedia.org>.
 And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about
it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly
rate commensurate with experience.  This can be a part-time role, but we’ll
need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3
months).  Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if
you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word!

Thanks.


Howie
*
_________________________
Howie Fung
Director of Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation


*

Community Liaison Job Description

Background Information and Statement of Purpose

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering & Product Development Department is
looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community
perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the
scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part
of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer
community.

Scope of Work

Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in
particular:

   -

   Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and
   non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can
   interact with;
   -

   Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as
   a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking
   to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively,
   and recruiting them for workgroups and studies;
   -

   Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge
   about our projects, including but not limited to training
   externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their
   questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis;
   -

   Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making
   process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs;
   -

   Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of
   volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering
   programmes; and
   -

   Other duties as needed.


Requirements

Effective Community Liaisons will be:

   -

   Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our
   community within the Foundation and vice-versa.
   -

   Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to
   explain our products to different groups of users with different levels of
   technical understanding.
   -

   Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and
   views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
   -

   Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust
   these people for the relationship to function.
   -

   Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to
   execute with little to no supervision.
   -

   Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of
   others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.
   -

   Willing and able to remain resilient in the face of frustration from our
   users, in order to get the job done.


Pluses

Other positive attributes or areas of knowledge include:

   -

   Diverse language skills. While the Wikimedia Foundation communicates
   internally in English, we aim to be able to talk to our different
   communities natively.
   -

   Experience with the software development process. You will be thrown
   into teams that are actively working on new features; having a background
   that reduces the slope of your learning curve is a plus.
   - Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are
   about more than just Wikipedia.

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Re: Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

Samuel Klein — 2013-05-18T04:36:37

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Craig Franklin
<cfranklin< at >halonetwork.net> wrote:

I want to echo Craig's thanks.  This was a most helpful summary.
I hope to see these recommendations are implemented by the FDC before
the next  round's letters of intent are due.

Regards,
SJ





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Re: Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

Craig Franklin — 2013-05-18T04:12:59

Thanks Susana for so quickly documenting this matter, and thanks Jan-Bart
and Patricio for referring this quickly to the Ombudsperson so that it
could be investigated and dealt with quickly rather than being allowed to
fester.

I think that the recommendations that Susana have made are sensible and not
onerous to implement, and I urge the FDC to accept and implement these
recommendations as quickly as possible.

Cheers,
Craig Franklin


2013/5/15 Susana Morais <susana.morais< at >wikimedia.pt>

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