Re: [Wikimedia-l] Need help with your IEGrant proposal? Join a Hangout today
Hi all, A follow-up reminder that we're hosting another Individual Engagement Grants proposal clinic Hangout tomorrow. What: WMF grantmaking staff and IEG committee members will spend an hour answering specific questions about IEGrant proposals, helping people create their proposals, etc. If you'd like to get or give advice about grant proposals for this program in real time, please join us! When: Wednesday 19 March 2014, 1700 UTC Where: https://plus.google.com/events/cml60dffci2vpk7trq3sfsnho9s We're hosting one additional session next week before the March 31 proposal deadline for IEGrants, and are also happy to make ourselves available to answer proposers' questions via other channels upon request, so please don't hesitate to reach out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-contact Warm regards, Siko On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi all, Just a reminder that we're hosting the first of 4 Individual Engagement Grants proposal clinic Hangouts today, and it will begin a few hours from now. What: WMF grantmaking staff and IEG committee members will spend an hour answering specific questions about IEGrant proposals, helping people create their proposals, etc. If you'd like to get or give advice about grant proposals for this program in real time, please join us! When: Friday, 7 March 2014, 0100 UTC (Note: This is still Thursday in many time zones) Where: https://plus.google.com/events/chbmi5iegel2kru9irbgveinoqk We're hosting 3 more of these before the March 31 proposal deadline for IEGrants, on different days and times to accommodate various timezones, so if today doesn't work well for you please consider joining in one of the coming weeks: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events And, as always, we're happy to take questions via the usual wiki-channels anytime - these sessions are just an experiment in providing some extra fast help, with voice :) Hope to see you there, Siko https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
Pine, This isn't the first paid Wikipedian-in-Residence position you know :) Russavia On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: This was covered by the Associated Press and a number of other news organizations. According to these stories UC Berkeley is the first US university to hire a WIR. I've seen WIR positions advertised at other US universities but this is the first paid position. Congrats to Kevin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence/2014/03/18/16b5a556-aea4-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikipedian-in-residence/ http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-residence I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
No, but it's the first paid one at a US educational institution I believe... and possibly the first paid one worldwide at a traditional university. But that doesn't change the impact that the position will have. Congratulations! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 19 March 2014 12:57, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Pine, This isn't the first paid Wikipedian-in-Residence position you know :) Russavia On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: This was covered by the Associated Press and a number of other news organizations. According to these stories UC Berkeley is the first US university to hire a WIR. I've seen WIR positions advertised at other US universities but this is the first paid position. Congrats to Kevin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence/2014/03/18/16b5a556-aea4-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikipedian-in-residence/ http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-residence I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
Richard Symonds wrote: No, but it's the first paid one at a US educational institution I believe... and possibly the first paid one worldwide at a traditional university. Neither of these is true: Wikimedia Foundation hired a paid Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research center within the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, back in 2012. I described that hire in a blog post last month: http://twkozlowski.net/the-pot-and-the-kettle-the-wikimedia-way/. Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Call for a Wikipedian in Residence at MART musem in Rovereto (TN), Italy
(cross-posting to cultural-partners) Dear all, Today is a great day for GLAM collaborations, it seems (just read about the position at UC Berkley). it is a pleasure and a joy for us to communicate that we opened today a call for one position of Wikipedian in Residence at the MART museum (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto) in Rovereto (TN), Italy[1][2][3]. Mart is a renowned Italian museum for modern and contemporary art, hosting works of, among others, Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Carrà and Fortunato Depero. Wikimedia italia and Mart started discussing about opening a wikiresidence, in september 2013, and what you see is the result of various months of discussion in which we have been able to overcome the various hurdles we have found in our path. But luckily there was an happy ending :-) Please read (and spread) the call here: (EN) http://bit.ly/wikipedianatmart (IT) http://bit.ly/wikipedianoalmart We are waiting for your application, too! International applicants are welcome! Ciao, Cristian Wikimedia Italia [1] http://www.mart.trento.it [2a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_and_Contemporary_Art_of_Trento_and_Rovereto [2b] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_d%27arte_moderna_e_contemporanea_di_Trento_e_Rovereto [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1919518 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
On 19 March 2014 13:11, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote: Neither of these is true: Wikimedia Foundation hired a paid Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research center within the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, back in 2012. I described that hire in a blog post last month: http://twkozlowski.net/the-pot-and-the-kettle-the-wikimedia-way/. Thanks for highlighting the history. It is amazing how quickly the community forgets past projects, or indeed past contributors. Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
Is there an on-wiki description of the WIR project and its planned outcomes? I would have thought that to use the term Wikipedian for an official position, that there should be suitable transparency. If nothing else, this ensures that the Wikimedia community can help make the project a success. Fae On 19 March 2014 07:00, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: This was covered by the Associated Press and a number of other news organizations. According to these stories UC Berkeley is the first US university to hire a WIR. I've seen WIR positions advertised at other US universities but this is the first paid position. Congrats to Kevin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence/2014/03/18/16b5a556-aea4-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikipedian-in-residence/ http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-residence I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
I published a note about Kevin in FayerWayer, a well-known Spanish technology site: http://www.fayerwayer.com/2014/03/berkeley-y-harvard-contaran-con-wikipedistas-residentes/ Regards. 2014-03-19 7:08 GMT-06:00 Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk : No, but it's the first paid one at a US educational institution I believe... and possibly the first paid one worldwide at a traditional university. But that doesn't change the impact that the position will have. Congratulations! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 19 March 2014 12:57, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Pine, This isn't the first paid Wikipedian-in-Residence position you know :) Russavia On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: This was covered by the Associated Press and a number of other news organizations. According to these stories UC Berkeley is the first US university to hire a WIR. I've seen WIR positions advertised at other US universities but this is the first paid position. Congrats to Kevin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence/2014/03/18/16b5a556-aea4-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikipedian-in-residence/ http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-residence I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Atentamente:Iván MartínezPresidenteWikimedia México A.C.wikimedia.mx http://wikimedia.mxImagina 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. * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding
Re: http://twkozlowski.net/the-pot-and-the-kettle-the-wikimedia-way/ Two questions: 1. Where can I find a response from either the WMF board or WMF funding/finance to the criticisms of a lack of transparency or the apparent failure of the project to deliver value for the donor's money as raised in this blog post? 2. Where can I read an officially recognized report for the outcomes of this project in terms of value for Wikimedia projects? Obviously we do not want to rely on second-hand analysis when reports to the WMF are a requirement for such projects. Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
This is the only thing approaching a complete list I've seen. Kevin is on it, but the information is stale. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence Update please! -Andrew On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 March 2014 13:11, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote: Neither of these is true: Wikimedia Foundation hired a paid Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research center within the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, back in 2012. I described that hire in a blog post last month: http://twkozlowski.net/the-pot-and-the-kettle-the-wikimedia-way/. Thanks for highlighting the history. It is amazing how quickly the community forgets past projects, or indeed past contributors. Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
Hi all -
Thanks :)
Fae: there isn't currently an on-wiki page fully summarizing what I'll
be doing, partly just for the simple fact that I haven't had time to
write one yet. I'm hoping to have one up in the near future, the
first couple months I've spent here (and it's also only a part-time
position,) have been pretty swamped between working on instructional
design issues, doing direct hands-on work with students, liasing with
some of our GLAM institutions, and dealing with media inquiries. I'm
more or less trying to combine two things in to one: I'm working with
several courses affiliated with our American Cultures program in the
context of the USEP, and I'm trying to get some of Berkeley's
historically significant collections released under free licenses.
USEP-wise, we put a _lot_ of time in to instructional design for the
classes we're working with with a specific focus on trying to avoid
the problems that USEP classes often run in to, and so far (though
most stuff is still in a pre-wiki stage,) it's looking like many
aspects of our design and implementation are going to be successful in
doing so. We'll be releasing all of our instructional design
materials as well as a detailed post-mortem after the semester.
GLAM-wise - a lot of our neat stuff is already digitized, it's just
sitting in silos with extremely limited access. I'll be focusing on
historically significant collections related to the material in-line
with what the AC program here covers ('theoretical and analytical
issues related to race, culture, and ethnicity in the United States,)
especially collections unique to Berkeley - unreleased media dealing
with the free speech movement, etc. I won't be limited to that,
though - one neat collaboration already came up by complete
happenstance. The SF Chronicle sent someone out last week to cover my
position, and by complete happenstance, the photographer they sent was
scheduled to shoot the inside of the [[Lawson Adit]] after he finished
up with me - an ENWP article I wrote about a really neat historical
oddity on Berkeley's campus, a horizontal mineshaft dug by Berkeley
students directly through the Hayward Fault, one of the Bay Area's two
really major faultlines. It was a bit surreal to see the inside of
the Adit (it's rarely opened, and even more rarely opened to the
public,) since it still uses its original ca. 1918 loadbearing redwood
timbering and is dug through a major fault - and also kind of
hilarious to show up to see that the ENWP article I had written about
it years ago was being used as a major source of reference by the
journalists and Berkeley person present. UCB is preparing to install
seismographic equipment in an old secondary deeper inside the mine
than I went - I'll be going back when they do with a real camera, and
should get some of the first interior shots of the mine with full
electric lighting (since they just strung it) in decades, let alone
freely licensed shots. I should be starting substantial outreach to
internal GLAMs within the next couple weeks about stuff directly
related to the AC program, and should have some media donations lined
up in the not too distant future.
Tomasz is right that Belfer was first... but Belfer was done so under
the radar that I actually had never even realized that someone had
been hired for the position until I stumbled across Tomasz's blog
about it, some time after the initial announcement of my position at
Berkeley. I had a conversation about the matter afterwards with
Berkeley's news people and with most of the journalists who have
contacted me about it since the initial NewsCenter posting, and the
general feeling has pretty much been that Belfer's practices were
different enough from the norm of what a Wikipedian-in-Residence is
that people have been comfortable running the story without a bunch of
caveats to explain Belfer. There's also Arild Vågen's previous
position at SLU, which is why most places are going with first US
university rather than first university.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
This is the only thing approaching a complete list I've seen. Kevin is on
it, but the information is stale.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence
Update please!
-Andrew
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 March 2014 13:11, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net
wrote:
Neither of these is true: Wikimedia Foundation hired a paid
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Belfer Center for Science and
International
Affairs, a research center within the John F. Kennedy School of
Government
at Harvard University, back in 2012.
I described that hire in a blog post last month:
http://twkozlowski.net/the-pot-and-the-kettle-the-wikimedia-way/.
Thanks for highlighting the history. It is amazing how quickly the
community forgets past projects, or indeed past contributors.
Fae
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations
Hi all, We've started changing the copyright status for the Wikibooks logo on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-unpathed.svg I would really appreciate your help if you would like to replace the copyright template with the CC BY-SA 3.0 template on the different language versions of the Wikibooks logo. But please don't change the copyright status on any of the other Wikimedia logos for now. We're still working on those. Thanks, Yana -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer 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. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Rupert, Some Wikimedia logos are not currently under a free license for historic reasons. But we hope to make them all freely licensed eventually and have already done so for newer logos (e.g. the new Wikivoyage logo). Thanks, Yana -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer 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. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote: hi, i talked to james about the reasoning. it seems unequal that wikimedia's logo is restricted and allowed, the partners logo not. imo we should put the wikimedia logo's under a standard license, because the wikimedia foundation is giving a bad example without gaining a lot. rupert. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:07 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Currently our policies do not allow the use of logos of organizations we are collaborating with, even with permission from these organizations, in the non mainspace areas of Wikipedia where we are collaborating. As this use with permission is legal, it is not in mainspace, and it promotes the development of Wikipedia I have started a RfC here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content#Logos_of_organizations_one_is_collaborating_withsuggesting that we allow it. Thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations
Hi Yana, That's a good change - thanks for making it. :-) Out of curiosity, is there a reason why you're using v3 rather than v4 of the license? Thanks, Mike On 19 Mar 2014, at 19:46, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, We've started changing the copyright status for the Wikibooks logo on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-unpathed.svg I would really appreciate your help if you would like to replace the copyright template with the CC BY-SA 3.0 template on the different language versions of the Wikibooks logo. But please don't change the copyright status on any of the other Wikimedia logos for now. We're still working on those. Thanks, Yana -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer 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. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Rupert, Some Wikimedia logos are not currently under a free license for historic reasons. But we hope to make them all freely licensed eventually and have already done so for newer logos (e.g. the new Wikivoyage logo). Thanks, Yana -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer 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. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote: hi, i talked to james about the reasoning. it seems unequal that wikimedia's logo is restricted and allowed, the partners logo not. imo we should put the wikimedia logo's under a standard license, because the wikimedia foundation is giving a bad example without gaining a lot. rupert. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:07 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Currently our policies do not allow the use of logos of organizations we are collaborating with, even with permission from these organizations, in the non mainspace areas of Wikipedia where we are collaborating. As this use with permission is legal, it is not in mainspace, and it promotes the development of Wikipedia I have started a RfC here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content#Logos_of_organizations_one_is_collaborating_withsuggesting that we allow it. Thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations
Yana Welinder wrote: We've started changing the copyright status for the Wikibooks logo on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: How do we know that the Foundation is the copyright holder for the Wikibooks logo? Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations
Hi Mike, Some of the Wikimedia logos are already licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and we want them to be consistently licensed, to the extent that we can. Thanks, Yana On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi Yana, That's a good change - thanks for making it. :-) Out of curiosity, is there a reason why you're using v3 rather than v4 of the license? Thanks, Mike On 19 Mar 2014, at 19:46, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, We've started changing the copyright status for the Wikibooks logo on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks-logo-en-unpathed.svg I would really appreciate your help if you would like to replace the copyright template with the CC BY-SA 3.0 template on the different language versions of the Wikibooks logo. But please don't change the copyright status on any of the other Wikimedia logos for now. We're still working on those. Thanks, Yana -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer 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. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Rupert, Some Wikimedia logos are not currently under a free license for historic reasons. But we hope to make them all freely licensed eventually and have already done so for newer logos (e.g. the new Wikivoyage logo). Thanks, Yana -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer 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. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote: hi, i talked to james about the reasoning. it seems unequal that wikimedia's logo is restricted and allowed, the partners logo not. imo we should put the wikimedia logo's under a standard license, because the wikimedia foundation is giving a bad example without gaining a lot. rupert. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:07 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Currently our policies do not allow the use of logos of organizations we are collaborating with, even with permission from these organizations, in the non mainspace areas of Wikipedia where we are collaborating. As this use with permission is legal, it is not in mainspace, and it promotes the development of Wikipedia I have started a RfC here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content#Logos_of_organizations_one_is_collaborating_withsuggesting that we allow it. Thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence
Kevin, I am intrigued by your comments in relation to Belfer. Whilst your paid position at Berkeley is a great opportunity, and congrats on that, I can't help but think that you haven't been exactly forthcoming with the media. Or you are in denial about numerous things. I see at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kevin_Gormanoldid=595779595#My_position_on_paid_editing you present your views on paid editing, with an interesting caveat at the bottom: Nothing in this section is intended to apply to Wikipedian in Residence-type programs, and similar collaborations between Wikipedia and cultural and educational institutions. I think that our missions match up with cultural institutions quite well, and I think that collaborations between us and them are likely to be quite fruitful. I, and many in the community, couldn't disagree more. If anything, the ethical standards for a paid Wikipedian-in-Residence are higher than a commercial outfit. The very reputation of the WiR program depends on it. Unfortunately, the Belfer Wikipedian in Residence was anything but ethical, and since Odder's blog post I have done some research on this, and I am gob-smacked at what I have found. Kevin, you are part of the in-crowd of the WMF, perhaps you could ask them for their report on the Belfer position. It is required for all grants I believe. As someone who is so vocal on the ethics of paid editing (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/) you will surely want to see the report. Perhaps it will answer why, in your words, the position, and everything surrounding it, was so under the radar. Cheers Russavia On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote: Tomasz is right that Belfer was first... but Belfer was done so under the radar that I actually had never even realized that someone had been hired for the position until I stumbled across Tomasz's blog about it, some time after the initial announcement of my position at Berkeley. I had a conversation about the matter afterwards with Berkeley's news people and with most of the journalists who have contacted me about it since the initial NewsCenter posting, and the general feeling has pretty much been that Belfer's practices were different enough from the norm of what a Wikipedian-in-Residence is that people have been comfortable running the story without a bunch of caveats to explain Belfer. There's also Arild Vågen's previous position at SLU, which is why most places are going with first US university rather than first university. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
