User talk:ViridianPenguin

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello ViridianPenguin,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

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With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Deutsche Bank

Hello, I was surprised by your comments about a board member and Deutsche Bank in a recent thread. I am leaving out the specific details intentionally. I don't view 2018-present Deutsche Bank as an organization that we would want to emulate and I do not want the editor relationship with the WMF staff to feel like the bank union vs the ownership. The idea that a sitting board member would characterize the relationship like that is deeply troubling to me. The idea that en:Deutsche Bank is something we would want to emulate seems absurd. I wanted to know if there was some existing response to either this board member or that line of thinking? Czarking0 (talk) 22:57, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

My recollection (admittedly spotty months later) is that I came to that WMF Board session hoping to discuss the election controversy, and Mayree Clark opened by explaining how she understands the editor-WMF relationship because of her experience with Deutsche Bank putting union members on its board. In using that Deutsche Bank framework to argue editors need a similarly transparent way to elect their peers onto the WMF Board, I did not mean that editors are like a union facing ownership or that Deutsche Bank is overall praiseworthy. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 22:31, 8 February 2026 (UTC)