Category Archives: Wikimedia Movement

More Wikimedia documents!

During the meet-up of Wikimedians from the San Francisco Bay Area last week-end, people were talking about the need for various kind of documents and goodies to hand out at the Maker Faire. I realized that we could actually organize some sort of Marketing Marathon during the next meet-up. Continue reading

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To be or not to be (a candidate for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees)

Candidacies are now open for the election to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. A fair amount of people have been asking me if I would be a candidate; the answer is “not likely”, and this is why. Continue reading

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Introducing the Wikimedia documents initiative

I am happy to announce the launch of the Wikimedia documents initiative (WMDOC), which aims at creating and maintaining a centralized set of standardized, up-to-date and localized core reference documents for public relations, marketing and public outreach. Continue reading

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Wikimedia PR material cleanup; Phase I: Inventory

This is a quick note to let you know that Casey Brown and I have decided to revive the PR material cleanup project: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR_material_cleanup Continue reading

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Wikimedia elections: thoughts

From 28 June to 7 July, elections for the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation were held. Eligible voters were regular editors from all Wikimedia projects (see requirements and results). Continue reading

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