Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement
That's one step better than I was hoping for, If all y'all are already in close contact with Erik, then I'm no longer needed in this phase. :-) (unless I can help with setup, or getting more data, or etc.) Good luck, and have fun! :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning PS. do post regular updates on status. I'd love to know how things go from here! :-) On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:06:32PM +0200, Stefan Fussan wrote: We are about to migrate the WT data on WV as a first step ( http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ ). I am in touch with Erik as well. Till now i have got no time table and any further information from the WMF. But I am sure, during the next two weeks we will know more details about the procedure. Stefan aka Fussi Am 17.09.2012 19:31, schrieb Samuel Klein: The Wikivoyage migration plans should be able to proceed. I haven't seen a specific plan for how that will work; it is still being discussed on Meta and on Wikivoyage. Sam. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:21:55PM +0200, Alice Wiegand wrote: Hi all, on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm glad to announce the following statement about the travel guide RfC http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide : What are the next steps? Will the foundation first wait for all lawsuits to resolve, or will they start with working on providing the servers? What's the current time-frame? sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] commons promotion
On 13 September 2012 12:10, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.rujavascript:; wrote: Btw it occurred to me that we never (to the best of my knowledge) tun a Wikipedia banner asking to donate pictures. Smth like to take a World Heritage site article without illustrations, or a town, and to say that this is easy to illustrate in several clicks - just to donate pictures. Or about your town. Enwiki used to have a system where articles about people without images got a placeholder - No picture available! Can you donate one? - but it was taken down a few years ago, partly due to community dislike of it and partly due to technical problems. I believe a number of those technical issues have since been resolved, so it might be worth thinking about trialling it again on a small scale... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk javascript:; -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 38 -- 17 September 2012
From the editor: ''Signpost'' expands to Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-17/From_the_editor News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-17/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Action! â The Indian Cinema Task Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-17/WikiProject_report Featured content: Go into the light http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-17/Featured_content Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-17/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-17 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] commons promotion
On 18 September 2012 14:00, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: On 13 September 2012 12:10, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.rujavascript:; wrote: Btw it occurred to me that we never (to the best of my knowledge) tun a Wikipedia banner asking to donate pictures. Smth like to take a World Heritage site article without illustrations, or a town, and to say that this is easy to illustrate in several clicks - just to donate pictures. Or about your town. Enwiki used to have a system where articles about people without images got a placeholder - No picture available! Can you donate one? - but it was taken down a few years ago, partly due to community dislike of it and partly due to technical problems. I believe a number of those technical issues have since been resolved, so it might be worth thinking about trialling it again on a small scale... My recollection is that that one of the key reasons the English Wikipedia community stopped using the image placeholders was the fact that we were receiving a very significant number of non-free images, including obviously commercial ones that people were claiming they owned, and we wound up deleting a lot of images that were 'donated'. I like the idea of inviting people to contribute images for *select* articles, but not *every* article without an image. But we should really make sure that we're getting some statistical information if we trial this again, to ensure that what we are getting is helpful and not a copyright timesink. It would be a shame to return to the old days when everything operated on the assumption that there were always warm bodies around to clean up these kinds of messes. On many projects, that is no longer the case. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] commons promotion
- Original Message - From: Risker risker...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] commons promotion ...old days when everything operated on the assumption that there were always warm bodies around to clean up these kinds of messes. On many projects, that is no longer the case. O the irony! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] CNET News: Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
Spotted this in my news feed, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/ sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] CNET News: Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
Hmmm, should I stop reading at Wikimedia Foundation UK? -- Amir 2012/9/18 Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl: Spotted this in my news feed, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/ sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] CNET News: Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is Violet Blue blogging about us. -george On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Spotted this in my news feed, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/ sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] BBC: Gibraltar targets tourists with Wikipedia QR codes
Gibraltar is embracing Wikipedia and QR codes. More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19544299 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] CNET News: Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
Spotted this in my news feed, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/ sincerely, Kim Bruning http://untrikiwiki.com/ Max Klein's wiki editing business His blog response: http://untrikiwiki.com/explanation-to-allegations-of-misuse-of-position-and-paid-editing/ Fred ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] CNET News: Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know anything about this case, but it does seem that paid advocacy is increasing, and although the community seems opposed to it as a whole, that message isn't getting through to individual editors. It's becoming very discouraging to have to deal with it, or to edit alongside it. Your concern is totally legit Sarah, but before we jump to saying paid advocacy is actually increasing, I think it would be interesting to try and think about whether it's merely that it's more prominent and open. The kind of guidelines that PR orgs and Wikimedians are encouraging, such as being transparent about a COI, could create the misperception that there is more paid advocacy. Maybe it's just that we're actually starting to see people be more open? The thing that scares me the most is the kind of edits uncovered by WikiScanner back in the day: those who are editing with a COI but who are acting in secret. The thing that I don't even want to think about when it comes to paid advocacy is how many skilled sockmasters are writing articles that look okay but are really spam? In short: I think people like Max and Roger, who make public declarations about their identities and conflicts of interest, are not the ones who scare me. We can always find those people and start a conversation with them. Steven ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
