[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 21 -- 27 May 2013
Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/Foundation_elections News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/News_and_notes In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/In_the_media Featured content: Life of 2Ï http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/Featured_content WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/WikiProject_report Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/Technology_report Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27/Recent_research Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-27 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] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group
Congratulations to Wikimedia Nepal! If Wikimedia UK can help you in any way, please do get in touch :) Stevie On 30 May 2013 21:15, Markus Glaser markus.gla...@wikimedia.de wrote: Congrats and welcome to the Wikimedia world! If there are any questions concerning your next steps as an organisation, I'd be happy to help :) Markus Am 30.05.2013 21:31, schrieb Balázs Viczián: Congrats from WMHU too! Balázs 2013.05.30. 20:58, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com ezt írta: Congratulations! Welcome to Wikimedia affilliates family. Count with Wikimedia Mexico as colaborator and with me as friend. Well done! El may 30, 2013 1:54 p.m., Dennis Tobar dennis.to...@gmail.com escribió: Yay!, Congrats to Wikimedians from Nepal! On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Arnau Duran arnaudu...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations guys! wish you all the success! *Arnau Duran Ferrero *arnaudu...@gmail.com | www.arnauduran.net Telèfon personal: (+34) 696475418 [image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/**arnauduranhttp://www.facebook.com/arnauduran [image: Twitter]http://www.twitter.**com/arnauduranhttp://www.twitter.com/arnauduran [image: LinkedIn] http://www.linkedin.com/in/**arnauduranhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/arnauduran [image: Google Plus]https://plus.google.com/**111957640098898266818https://plus.google.com/111957640098898266818 2013/5/30 Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com Congratulations Nepal team! On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to board, friends. I know it has not been easy for Ganesh and to the Nepal team. Congrats! 2013/5/30 Tonmoy Khan tonmoy...@gmail.com Congratulations to Nepali Wikimedians!! Ali Haidar Khan (Tonmoy) Wikimedia Bangladesh On May 30, 2013 11:12 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote: Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to move on and transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter? Deryck On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved the recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today: Wikimedians of Nepal. Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of Wikimedia entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as Wikipedia turns eleven in Nepal! == Wikimedians of Nepal == Wikimedians of Nepal http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikimedia_Nepalhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal is a group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards developing and promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal. They've been actively working to help expand the community, launch projects in more languages of Nepal and promote and support the existing ones. The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good chance of attaining that status this year. Granting them user group recognition allows the movement to express its appreciation for their hard work even while they are working on the bureaucratic aspects of meeting the requirements of chapterhood. The timing is fortuitous in that the group is going to mark the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia in a Nepali language on 3 June, next Monday. Ganesh, the group's interim president has been invited to this year's Milan conference, where he gave a comprehensive overview of the group's history, its projects (including a successful 'wikiwomen programme) and its ambitions. The slides are at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/**wikipedia/commons/4/45/** WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdfhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdf The Affiliations Committee's recognition http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Affiliations_Committee/** Resolutions/Wikimedians_of_**Nepal_-_May_2013http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedians_of_Nepal_-_May_2013 is valid until 28 May 2014, or until they are recognized as a chapter. == Wikimedia User Groups == Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work and provide them recognition from the Wikimedia movement. User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work, at least three people participating and a public wiki page with all the relevant information). Under the movement roles recommendations http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_** models/User_Groupshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process directly by the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they are to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants. Best
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more
On 29 April 2013 10:35, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: Based on just flicking though the conversation, The main issue here is historical content that is mostly in the way of the re-purposing? Why not just close down internal.wiki and start a Internal.wiki 2.0 with a more defined scope that suits the purpose? Was there any further progress with these discussions to shut down or re-purpose internal-l and internal wiki? It's been brought up recently as a questionhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2013/Questions/2#Dozens_WMF_private_wikis_and_.22no_place_to_work_together.22 for candidates in the community Board of Trustees elections (for which voting starts tomorrow). -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
I've gone ahead and updated https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-l to reflect this. You'll notice that some of the language has been simplified, and the password fields have been removed because this list has public archives and the subscriber list is only viewable by list admins, so there's no real need to know your password for this list. Unfortunately this still reverts to old design for other languages but I'm working on seeing if there's a way to fix that. Isarra (and anyone else) can you see any issues with the newer design in terms of usability? As a reminder the source is at https://github.com/quimgil/mailman-templates. On 22 May 2013 20:32, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Version 1.0 is out: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Source: https://github.com/quimgil/mailman-templates Propagation is welcome. Thank you TheHelpfulOne for the original push and to the other feedback reporters! On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 05/20/2013 10:56 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: MZMcBride, 21/05/2013 04:22: Quim Gil wrote: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Feedback, please. I would love to see this design or something similar become the default for Wikimedia's mailing lists. Compared to the current default,[1] I find the new design vastly more friendly and engaging. Can't be the default because it's English only, isn't it. A workaround could be to remove custom linguistic content (for instance make About Wikimedia Foundation just Wikimedia and point it to some translatable page on Meta), but I've no idea how localisation of all this works. Well, this *recommended* template could substitute the current default which doesn't offer localized links either. An improvement is an improvement, and I think the improvement for users is huge. Then it is up to the admins of each list to implement this template or not, to take it as is or with modifications e.g. links to Spanish content for your Spanish speaking list. It's just a piece of HTML to be pasted in a web form. Just give me a day or so to implement feedback and clean the code, and then the template will be ready to be applied by list admins with a simple copypaste, with optional customization. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter report for Wikimedia Sverige April 2013
Congratulations WMSE on all your outreach work! *11* edit-a-thons in April: wow! And it sounds like you're doing good work with Wikiversity too which is super cool. also, I watched the references video (with the sound off :) ) and it's really good, very clear -- we should have these for all languages! -- phoebe On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote: The Chapter report for Wikimedia Sverige April 2013 kan now be found on our chapter wiki: http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-04 *Best regards,* *Jan Ainali* CEO, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida +46 - 729 - 67 29 48 ___ 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 -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo
Hello, all. I've just posted an announcement by legal on Meta ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo_announcement) about the Wikivoyage logo - unfortunately, we are going to have to choose a new one. To save you all from having to click on the link, I'll reproduce the announcement at the bottom of my email. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, we will need to launch a contest for the new Wikivoyage logo, but first I'm hoping to get feedback and assistance in making the best process for that possible. We had been considering ways to optimize logo selection by the community, with the idea that we would have plenty of time to talk about the process before needing it. Unfortunately, we now need something quite quickly. Accordingly, I'd be really grateful for feedback on the process, which has been posted here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_contest_procedure You can read a little more about it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Logo_contest_procedure I hope you will share your questions, comments and suggestions there. Thanks. Maggie As many of you know, the community held a contest to design and decide upon the new logo that would come to represent Wikivoyage, the latest open and collaborative project to be hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. After review of quite a few fantastic entries and much debate, the logo below was decided upon by community consensus: [omitted; see linked discussion] Unfortunately, both the Foundation and several members of the community discovered that the eventually chosen logo bore a striking resemblance to the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) logo: [omitted; see linked discussion] At that time, the Foundation reviewed the two logos and believed that, while some risk existed, there were significant enough differences between the designs and the markets the two organizations occupied for both logos to co-exist. Since then, the Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the WTO, requesting that we change the logo. While we wish that the WTO agreed with our assessment that the two logos contain substantial differences and could co-exist, we understand their concern. We still believe that there are some significant differences between the Wikivoyage logo and the WTO, however, such arguments are not guaranteed to win if we were to legally oppose this request because there are also some substantial similarities. With this in mind, as well as the fact that the Wikivoyage logo is still relatively new and has not had a chance to build significant brand recognition yet, we believe the better solution is to hold a new community contest for a new logo. We believe that the community is the best body to decide what logo should represent their hard work and hope that interested community members will take this opportunity to once again showcase their creativity and talent by submitting designs. The WTO has been very understanding of the Wikimedia movement’s values and need for community consensus and has agreed to grant us ample time to develop a new logo through community processes. (Please see the proposed Logo contest procedurehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_contest_procedure.) That said, we hope to begin the process of community consultation and input in the next few days so that the new logo can be in place by the end of July. With that, we look forward to seeing new designs! Michelle Paulson http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mpaulson_(WMF) Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMIT bulletin no. 53 - May 29, 2013
And this is also a great report ... I'm especially pleased to see all of
the library outreach happening in Italy via WMIT!! :)
I just started a page to globally list these library/wikimedia events
projects on the outreach wiki... still *very* much under construction so
please help out!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Collaborations#2013
-- phoebe
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:44 AM, .mau. (maurizio codogno)
wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#53) is available. This time
we write about Amsterdam Hackathon 2013, the contest Veneto in
Wikipedia, searches for people, and our next appointments.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at
Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; more-or-less raw text of
the bulletin follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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__NOTOC__
[[Image:Wikimedia news1.png|400px|center]]
{{titolo errato|titolo=Wikimedia news}}{{WMNpubblico|53|May 29, 2013}}
[[File:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2013.jpg|thumb|400px|center| Working
Group - By Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands
(Wikimedia Hackathon 2013) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
== Amsterdam Hackathon 2013 ==
Over the weekend from May 24 to 26, the
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 Wikimedia
Hackathon 2013] was held in Amsterdam. The annual gathering, which
brings together all Wikimedian interested in the development of
MediaWiki and other Wikimedia projects, was organized by Wikimedia
Nederland and was held at the
[http://www.stayokay.com/en/hostel/amsterdam-zeeburg Stayokay hostel].
There were about a hundred Wikimedian; the participants appreciate the
Dutch organization which was impeccable.
[[:it:Utente:CristianCantoro|Cristian]] (''vicepresident of Wikimedia
Italia'') was present on behalf of Wikimedia Italia and
[[:commons:Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Who's_who | Wiki Loves
Monuments international group]].
In addition to numerous other projects,
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs Wikimedia Labs] were
presented: tjey are the new infrastructure that will manage the
development of new tools for Wikimedia sites.
== Wikimedia Italia is hiring ==
Are you determined, do you like to work in teams, to interact with the
public? Are you willing to learn some new computer program?! Then read
[http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Ricerca_collaboratori the announcement
for a secretarial employee] published by Wikimedia Italia. Our staff
is growing! All specifications can be found on the dedicated page:
here we anticipate that the workplace is in Monza (with occasional
short trips) and that the type of commitment required will be 20 hours
per week (horizontal or vertical part-time).
The announcement is aimed at candidates of both sexes (L.125/91) and
will remain valid until 15 June 2013.
If you are interested, send your CV and a presentation letter to the
email address lav...@wikimedia.it.
== Veneto in Wikipedia ==
[
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Coordinamento/Scuole/Autori_in_Wikipedia/2012-2013/Veneto
Veneto in Wikipedia] is a competition, organized by our member
Professor Corrado Petrucco from the University of Padua together with
Enrica Pagano and Simonetta Boscolo in collaboration with Wikimedia
Italia, planned to invite classes of students of schools of all levels
to create or improve entries on Wikipedia. Monday, June 3 a meeting
will be held for the closure of the project. [[:it:User:Cotton|
Cotton]] will participate for Wikimedia Italia: Cotton will talk in
particular about the criteria used for the evaluation of new entries
in Wikipedia created by the children. At the conclusion of the meeting
the best work will be awarded. The event will take place from 16:00 at
the Einaudi Gramsci institute (via delle Palme, 1 35137 Padova);
[http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/File:Locandina_veneto_in_wikipedia.pdf
here] the complete program.
== Wikimedia Foundation is looking for Italian-speaking people ==
The Engineering and Product Developement department of the Wikimedia
Foundation is looking for two or thres
[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/66337
Community Liaison, Product Development], i.e. representatives of the
local Wikimedian community who will act as intermediaries between
users and the engineering team, supporting them in the activation
phase of new extensions on the sites of projects of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
This would be a task for a period of about 3 months, which requires a
minimum commitment of 15 hours per week. In particular the urgent need
at the moment is on the launch of
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor Visual Editor] on
Wikipedia in different languages; they will need, for example, to
explain to their community the news and manage useful feedback tools
significant to the computer development department.
Basic requirements are knowledge of the English language (as
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
On 05/31/2013 04:03 AM, Thehelpfulone wrote: Unfortunately this still reverts to old design for other languages but I'm working on seeing if there's a way to fix that. I believe it requires restarting Mailman, or at least this is how I read http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030605 The template is being used in more lists. New additions (I'm aware of): https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Structured Data
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group
Congrats, this is wonderful news! It was good to meet you in Milan; good luck with your anniversary celebration. SJ, remembering when Bibhustan Bista came to Wikimania and shared stories about the early Nepali wikiprojects... On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote: Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to move on and transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter? Deryck On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved the recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today: Wikimedians of Nepal. Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of Wikimedia entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as Wikipedia turns eleven in Nepal! == Wikimedians of Nepal == Wikimedians of Nepal http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal is a group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards developing and promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal. They've been actively working to help expand the community, launch projects in more languages of Nepal and promote and support the existing ones. The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good chance of attaining that status this year. Granting them user group recognition allows the movement to express its appreciation for their hard work even while they are working on the bureaucratic aspects of meeting the requirements of chapterhood. The timing is fortuitous in that the group is going to mark the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia in a Nepali language on 3 June, next Monday. Ganesh, the group's interim president has been invited to this year's Milan conference, where he gave a comprehensive overview of the group's history, its projects (including a successful 'wikiwomen programme) and its ambitions. The slides are at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdf The Affiliations Committee's recognition http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedians_of_Nepal_-_May_2013 is valid until 28 May 2014, or until they are recognized as a chapter. == Wikimedia User Groups == Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work and provide them recognition from the Wikimedia movement. User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work, at least three people participating and a public wiki page with all the relevant information). Under the movement roles recommendations http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process directly by the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they are to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliatons Committee ___ 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 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] WMF Board and FDC's elections - delay by one week
The Election Committee regrets to advise that it is necessary to delay the start of voting in the WMF Elections 2013 for one week. This delay is being implemented for three reasons: * We have been unable to verify that the list of eligible voters is complete and that all voters meet the published criteria * We have been unable to verify that the SecurePoll setups for the election are properly functioning * The voter interfaces have not been translated and are not currently available in any language other than English, thus disadvantaging Wikimedians who do not read English. The following changes are now made to the Election timeline: *8-22 June 2013: elections *23-25 June 2013: vote-checking *25-28 June: publication of results. For the Election Committee, KTC -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Minutes from the April 18-19, 2013 Board Meeting
Hello all, The minutes of the WMF Board Meeting on April 18-19, 2013 have been approved and published: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2013-04-18 The meeting's agenda included: * Reports from the Audit Committee and Board Governance Committee * Approving the resolution on Potential Conflicts of Interest (available here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest ) * Appointing Bishakha Datta to the Board Governance Committee * An update on the Annual Plan * Guidance for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) * The Wikimedia Foundation's participation in the FDC * Discussing a Strategy Committee proposal * Discussing guiding principles (available at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles ) * Discussing editor retention * Discussing an update to the bylaws * Approving a revised Board Governance Committee charter (available here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approving_the_revised_Board_Governance_Committee_Charter ) * Discussing the trustee candidate search * Discussing the Executive Director transition Additionally, minutes from the Board Governance Committee's Meeting on April 17, 2013 are available here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_04-17-2013 -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* ___ 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
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter report for Wikimedia Sverige April 2013
The Chapter report for Wikimedia Sverige April 2013 kan now be found on our chapter wiki: http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-04 *Best regards,* *Jan Ainali* CEO, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida +46 - 729 - 67 29 48 ___ 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] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9
How lovely!
A.
On May 31, 2013 9:32 AM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:
{{Crossposting}}
Dear all,
From June 8, Wikimedia Mexico will co-produce Möebius a weekly radio
program in Ibero 90.9 FM [1], one of the trendsetter media in Mexico City.
The
creative concept of the program is to find two topics allegedly
disconnected
, but united by four or five Wikipedia articles, with a sound design that
will
reinforce the concept.
It has been several months of planning the concept, which will serve to
further spread our mission in Mexico, thanks our GLAM partnering with the
Universidad Iberoamericana and their radio station, Ibero 90.9 FM.
This program will be conducted by Almendra Hernández, Carmen Alcázar and
me. We
will upload the audios for those wishing to listen to them, so you can
practice
your Spanish :)
Best regards.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUIA-FM
--
*Atentamente:
Iván Martínez
Presidente
Wikimedia México A.C.
wikimedia.mx
Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. *
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9
Hi Iván,
that's an interesting concept - looking forward to listening to the recordings.
Do you envision that collaboration to broaden a bit over time? For
instance, there does not seem to be any mention of Creative Commons on
their site, or their trained voices might help in getting some more
Wikipedia articles spoken in Spanish, or they might have a sound
archive (or contacts to one), which could then be asked about
releasing materials under Wikimedia-compatible licenses.
Cheers,
Daniel
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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:
{{Crossposting}}
Dear all,
From June 8, Wikimedia Mexico will co-produce Möebius a weekly radio
program in Ibero 90.9 FM [1], one of the trendsetter media in Mexico City. The
creative concept of the program is to find two topics allegedly disconnected
, but united by four or five Wikipedia articles, with a sound design that will
reinforce the concept.
It has been several months of planning the concept, which will serve to
further spread our mission in Mexico, thanks our GLAM partnering with the
Universidad Iberoamericana and their radio station, Ibero 90.9 FM.
This program will be conducted by Almendra Hernández, Carmen Alcázar and me.
We
will upload the audios for those wishing to listen to them, so you can
practice
your Spanish :)
Best regards.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUIA-FM
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9
Iván, I love this. Good luck! Do you have a list of articles you
are planning to connect? I would be keen to see if the same property
of being almost connected holds across languages.
SJ
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:
{{Crossposting}}
Dear all,
From June 8, Wikimedia Mexico will co-produce Möebius a weekly radio
program in Ibero 90.9 FM [1], one of the trendsetter media in Mexico City. The
creative concept of the program is to find two topics allegedly disconnected
, but united by four or five Wikipedia articles, with a sound design that will
reinforce the concept.
It has been several months of planning the concept, which will serve to
further spread our mission in Mexico, thanks our GLAM partnering with the
Universidad Iberoamericana and their radio station, Ibero 90.9 FM.
This program will be conducted by Almendra Hernández, Carmen Alcázar and me.
We
will upload the audios for those wishing to listen to them, so you can
practice
your Spanish :)
Best regards.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUIA-FM
--
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Iván Martínez
Presidente
Wikimedia México A.C.
wikimedia.mx
Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. *
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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Board approves FDC's 2012-2013 Round 2 funding recommendations
Dear members of the Wikimedia community, As you know, on April 28, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) made its Round 2 funding recommendations to the WMF Board of Trustees. [1] From the four proposals that were submitted in this round, the FDC recommended that two of these movement entities receive a total of $665,000 USD: they recommended $140,000 USD to Wikimedia Norge and $525,000 USD to Wikimédia France. I am pleased to share with you the news that the Board of Trustees has made the decision to approve the FDC's 2012-2013 Round 2 funding recommendations. [2] These funding recommendations will now be implemented by the Foundation. Many members of our community provided significant and thoughtful input during Round 2. We would like to thank the Round 2 applicants, the Funds Dissemination Committee members and staff, the ombudsperson, and the members of the community who participated in the review period. We have learned much from this inaugural year of the FDC process, and we look forward to hearing from you about your experience. The WMF learning and evaluation team will be reaching out to those that participated in the process to collect feedback through surveys, and the ombudsperson will be collecting feedback as well. Learning collected through these processes will be shared in a report. Again, we thank you all for your dedication and commitment to this funding process. Best, Patricio Lorente, Board Representative to the FDC [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2012-2013_round2 [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Board_decisions/2012-2013_round2 -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo
Michelle Paulson wrote: Since then, the Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the WTO, requesting that we change the logo. While we wish that the WTO agreed with our assessment that the two logos contain substantial differences and could co-exist, we understand their concern. We still believe that there are some significant differences between the Wikivoyage logo and the WTO, however, such arguments are not guaranteed to win if we were to legally oppose this request because there are also some substantial similarities. With this in mind, as well as the fact that the Wikivoyage logo is still relatively new and has not had a chance to build significant brand recognition yet, we believe the better solution is to hold a new community contest for a new logo. Will the current Wikivoyage logo be an option in this upcoming logo selection contest? If the Wikivoyage community is strongly in favor of retaining the logo it already approved, what are options? I don't believe there's any precedent for the Wikimedia Foundation vetoing a community-approved logo in this manner. (Is there?) This seems like unchartered territory for Wikimedia, so it's important to be cautious and careful, I think. We believe that the community is the best body to decide what logo should represent their hard work and hope that interested community members will take this opportunity to once again showcase their creativity and talent by submitting designs. As I posted on the relevant Meta-Wiki talk page just now, the Wikimedia community cannot feel rushed or pressured to accept this new logo selection procedure. Typically a discussion of this nature would last at least thirty days, from my experience. This leaves two options, as I see it: pushing back the timeline for the selection of a Wikivoyage logo by a few weeks or not using this procedure for the selection of the next Wikivoyage logo. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:21 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Michelle Paulson wrote: Since then, the Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the WTO, requesting that we change the logo. While we wish that the WTO agreed with our assessment that the two logos contain substantial differences and could co-exist, we understand their concern. We still believe that there are some significant differences between the Wikivoyage logo and the WTO, however, such arguments are not guaranteed to win if we were to legally oppose this request because there are also some substantial similarities. With this in mind, as well as the fact that the Wikivoyage logo is still relatively new and has not had a chance to build significant brand recognition yet, we believe the better solution is to hold a new community contest for a new logo. Will the current Wikivoyage logo be an option in this upcoming logo selection contest? If the Wikivoyage community is strongly in favor of retaining the logo it already approved, what are options? On behalf of a Wikivoyager, I've already asked the legal team if derivatives of the current logo would be usable, and I'm afraid the answer is no. It must be a new logo. I don't believe there's any precedent for the Wikimedia Foundation vetoing a community-approved logo in this manner. (Is there?) This seems like unchartered territory for Wikimedia, so it's important to be cautious and careful, I think. I think that the reason why there's no precedent is because this is the first time that we have run into a trademark infringement claim against a logo. We believe that the community is the best body to decide what logo should represent their hard work and hope that interested community members will take this opportunity to once again showcase their creativity and talent by submitting designs. As I posted on the relevant Meta-Wiki talk page just now, the Wikimedia community cannot feel rushed or pressured to accept this new logo selection procedure. Typically a discussion of this nature would last at least thirty days, from my experience. This leaves two options, as I see it: pushing back the timeline for the selection of a Wikivoyage logo by a few weeks or not using this procedure for the selection of the next Wikivoyage logo. The question of process is one for Meta, where discussion is already underway. No reason to fracture it. :) I appreciate your input there. Maggie -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
