Talk:Wikimedia Tool Developers Group/Discussions 2017
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[edit]This is a very nice initiative. Does anyone feel like creating a userbox for indicating membership? :-) But I wouldn't be happy with redirecting the communicaton to Facebook. Not everybody has a FB account and some people like to keep their anonimity. I think, a Wikimedia-related project should stay home. Bináris tell me 07:02, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- +1 I agree ーTesser4D 【Diskussion】 15:38, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
- Feel free to communicate here on this talk page. -- Freddy2001 talk 19:20, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
- May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
- May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
- May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
- June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
- June 12–14 – Vote checking
- June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results
More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections
wikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
21:03, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Congrats!
[edit]Hello, congrats on the recognition. Looking forward to learning more about this group and its work, hopefully soon on mediawiki.org, since that's where the devs community lives. Best, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:11, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you Elitre! We hope to work with you too. Indeed we are here for building tools to solve various problems :). Do you wish to be added to the organization account on Github as a member? --Alangi Derick (talk) 21:57, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
Adding members of the group to the Github organisation
[edit]Hell everyone,
We wish to add members of the UG to the group's Github organization where we can push our codes / tools / projects. If you want to be a member of this organization, please do drop your Github handle here so that we can directly give you access to the organisation here: Wikimedia Tool Developers. This way, we will have a collection of tools in one place for the UG, and these tools can be new ones that you want to create or existing ones. Thanks and waiting to start getting Github handles soon. --Alangi Derick (talk) 22:02, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
- I'm abartov on GitHub and have a few tools there. Ijon (talk) 02:48, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you Asaf for providing your details. You have been invited to the WTD Github Org. You can follow this link to confirm. Thank you. --Alangi Derick (talk) 08:21, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
- I'm quiddity-wp on github. Please add me, thanks. Quiddity (talk) 19:48, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you Quiddity. You have been invited to the WTD Github Org. You can follow this link to confirm your invitation. Thank you. --Alangi Derick (talk) 20:02, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Your feedback is welcome!
[edit]Hey everyone, TL;DR, see Technical Collaboration/Community collaboration in product development/Tech ambassadors and translators to provide feedback on the role of tech ambassadors and tech translators until August 22nd, or in person at Wikimania. All details on page. Any help spreading the word is certainly appreciated :) Ciao, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:13, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Learning Quarterly: October 2017
[edit]L&E Newsletter / Volume 4 / Issue 14 / October 2017
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- Thanks for this wonderful information. --Alangi Derick (talk) 19:35, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Inviting you to participate in the women editing contest "The women you have never met"
[edit]Dear Wikimedia Tool Developers Group!
Hope this message finds you all well :) On behalf of Iberocoop network I want to invite you to be part of the women editing contest we are organizing along with many other chapters and user groups in the movement. You are doing an excellent work on your local context and we will be so pleased to have you on board. In this very early stage, we are asking the organizations to add their interest in the following meta page Hope to see you there soon! Hugs----Anna Torres (WMAR) --Anna Torres (WMAR) (talk) 15:31, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Learning Quarterly: January 2018
[edit]L&E Newsletter / Volume 5 / Issue 15 / January 2018
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