[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town, South Africa / WikiAfrica
Forwarding from Wikimedia Italy, mailing list (we have an ongoing project called WikiAfrica with an association called Lettera27 Dear all, I'm forwarding a call for applications for a Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town. It is a one year position, offering expenses refund and implies living in Cape Town. Information can be found below. Please do not hesitate to forward the message to anyone may be interested. Marco (Cruccone) p.s. I am not really involved with this call, so do not send applications to me! *Da: *Isla Haddow-Flood isl...@africacentre.net *Oggetto: **Re: WikiAfrica Wikipedian-in-Residence* *Data: *27 ottobre 2011 08:08:03 GMT+02:00 * * Dear All The wikipedian-in-residence call that I sent through two weeks ago has been vetted by the Wikipedian cultural partners group and has been very enthusiastically accepted. It is now ready to be released. Please find below the link to the call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yAZxGcBuRO2Zp7vHGHV0q5aM1XaCzqIRSgQWm8lJAk/edit The Africa Centre will be funding this position. Please can you get it out to your networks so that we can get as many applications as possible. I look forward to working closely with you in the future. Warmest Isla : : Isla Haddow-Flood Marketing and Communications Manager Project Manager : WikiAfrica *a.* 1st Floor, 44 Long Street, Cape Town *w.** *www.africacentre.net *t.* +27 21 422 0468 *f. *+27 21 422 0446 *skype. *islahaddow The Africa Centre is a non-profit social innovator that creates platforms to explore contemporary Pan-African artistic practice and knowledge creation as catalysts for social change. ___ Mailing list dell'associazione Wikimedia Italia associazi...@wikimedia.it http://mailman.wikimedia.it/listinfo/associazione ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:43, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Unlike in Italian case, it is likely that US government would do that instead of us. So, there is no need to worry. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote: we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever I think that's taking too many steps at once. We should first check what exactly is being proposed and how this would influence the projects, the Foundation and maybe other related groups. Only when we find that indeed there is a large negative impact either on the projects themselves or on the Foundation's possibilities of hosting and supporting them, are drastic methods of protest a good idea. And only at that point it could be decided that turning some site on black would be the best definition of 'drastic method' for the case. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. Damn. 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.
On 10/27/2011 6:43 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: On 26 October 2011 14:15, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: And apparently that's fine, if you are making a faithful reproduction of the image in its original context. ?But tagging an image PD does not imply you may only make faithful reproductions of this image in their original context. However in some cases that is what it can actually mean. Exactly so. Remember - much of what we now define as copyright in law is based on our morality and ability to make decisions for the good of all. Our intent is the basis of the doctrines of Fair Use. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas Maybe when Occupy Wall Street calls a general strike... Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours
Hey guys So, Office Hours for the AFT is now over; thanks to all who attended. The logs can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2011-10-27 for those who missed it - we're talking about trying to hold a second session at a more North America-friendly time. Is that something that interests anyone? Meanwhile, the plans for the new AFT version can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFT5 - if you have any opinions, just drop a note on the talkpage. All comments and perspectives are welcome :). Thanks Oliver Keyes Community Liason, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Feedback Dashboard launched today
Hey Everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that earlier today, we launched the Feedback Dashboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedbackDashboard This dashboard is a running list of comments that new editors submitted via Moodbar (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar). The idea behind this feature is to capture, in a lightweight fashion, the editing experience of folks that are just starting out. After either attempting or submitting an edit, new editors get an invitation in the upper left hand corner inviting them to provide feedback on their editing experience. The Feedback Dashboard provides a feed of these comments. This feature is still experimental, so please excuse any wonkiness and let us know of any bugs you find. Take a look to find out what makes new editors Happy, Sad, or Confused! Also, if you'd like to either comment on the feature or participate in its further development, please leave a message here [1] or here [2]. Howie [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Feedback_Dashboard [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:New_editor_feedback ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote: Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. About 90% of everything that comes out of Domas's mouth is sarcasm. So if you don't know whether he's being sarcastic about something, you can assume that he is and get it right 90% of the time. Domas probably had the same reaction to the Italian Wikipedia protest as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for everyone. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
