Re: [Wikimedia-l] I just signed “FIFA: Build a memorial to honour the workers who lost their lives building the stadiums”

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ames 

Off topic. Please don't send such mails to this list. Regards, Richard.

On 03/07/14 07:26, koteche mcintosh wrote:

Hi,

I've just signed the following petition


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[Wikimedia-l] I just signed “FIFA: Build a memorial to honour the workers who lost their lives building the stadiums”

2014-07-02 Thread koteche mcintosh 
Hi,

I've just signed the following petition "FIFA: Build a memorial to honour the 
workers who lost their lives building the stadiums" and wanted to see if you 
could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 75,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read 
more and sign the petition here:

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/fifa-build-a-memorial-to-honour-the-workers-who-lost-their-lives-building-the-stadiums?recruiter=45957904&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_invitation

Thanks!
koteche


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering

2014-07-02 Thread Katherine Maher 
Hi Pierre,

Your point is well made.

We often see a misunderstanding of fair use licensing in the media: they
frequently don't license at all, and when they do, they often license
incorrectly. Using niceties like "Please consider" is not meant to
introduce ambiguity about whether licensing is required, but as a gentle
reminder to refamiliarize themselves with proper licensing policies.

More broadly though, a press release is designed to generate interest and
set a positive tone for the way journalists understand an event. Being
polite is one way to do that -- and then we can always follow up directly
with people who have questions or are found to have made a mistake.

Hope that helps explain the choice,

Katherine
On Jul 2, 2014 3:22 AM, "Pierre-Selim"  wrote:

> Hi Carlos, thanks for the press release.
>
> I just want to point out that as pictures are all CC-BY-SA it photographer
> should be credited in order to respect the licence (or other terms should
> be negociated with the copyright holder). It sounds weird to me that in a
> press release we open the gate of not respecting the licence as something
> possible. Yes I know other terms can be negociated directly with the
> authors, however i'd rather we encourage strongly to respect the licence.
>
> 2014-07-01 18:09 GMT+02:00 Carlos Monterrey :
>
> > (This press release is also available online
> > here:
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Summit_%E2%80%9CWikimania%E2%80%9D_comes_to_London_-_Largest_ever_gathering
> > <
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_Wikipedia_Zero_extension_Myanmar
> > >)
> >
> > Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering
> >
> >- *Featured speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and new
> >Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Lila Tretikov; Thousands of
> > Wikimedia
> >volunteers; Leaders in Technology, Culture and Society. From August
> 8th
> > to
> >10th at the Barbican Centre; Tickets go on sale today.*
> >
> >
> >- *Wikimania programme to focus on Social Machines, The Future of
> >Education, Democratic Media, Open Scholarship & Open Data*
> >
> > Wikimania’s 2014 team today announce the programme for this year’s
> historic
> > event. Wikimania 2014 will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from
> > 8th to 10th August, with a two day pre-conference held August 6th and
> 7th.
> > Over 4,000 attendees are expected; more than twice the number at any
> > previous Wikimania.
> >
> > The future of Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, forms the central
> > theme. As technological advances promise big changes on the platform,
> > Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales will delve into what the future has in
> store
> > for the world’s fifth most popular website.
> >
> > “Wikipedia is the largest knowledge base in the world, consulted by over
> > half a billion people each month,” says Wales. “However, we’ve only just
> > begun to scratch the surface of what can be done with it. Through
> > international expansion, a new focus on open data, and a big investment
> in
> > technology development, our movement is charting exciting new territory.”
> >
> > Attendees will also welcome Wikimedia’s new executive director, Lila
> > Tretikov. Her keynote will focus on the impact of Wikipedia in our
> changing
> > world and its potential for our future.
> >
> > Tretikov sees Wikipedia, a top five website, as an opportunity to for
> > unlocking and democratizing knowledge globally: “I’d like us to think
> > beyond what we know today. Think beyond our accomplishments, towards
> > opportunities. Opportunities for all our collective minds to build the
> > future of knowledge, collaboration and trust.” Recent developments have
> > included plans focused on overhauling Wikipedia’s user experience for
> > readers and editors, a programmatic approach to grant-making and
> community,
> > and establishing a development platform for knowledge building.
> >
> > Open to the public, Wikimania is a five-day, community-organised event
> > focusing on new projects in the world of MediaWiki, transparency, and
> open
> > knowledge. Themes include collaborative working, natural language
> > processing, crowdsourcing, education, journalism, scientific and medical
> > research, open data, and multimedia.
> >
> > --- ends
> > Programme Summary
> >
> > The conference is organised around five questions with massive
> implications
> > for the future.
> >
> >- Social Machines: How Can Online Communities Unlock Humanity’s
> >Potential?
> >
> >
> >- The Future of Education: Now That Wikipedia Has Done Everyone’s
> >Homework, What’s Left to Teach?
> >
> >
> >- Democratic Media: Must All Media Be Commercially Driven?
> >
> >
> >- Open Scholarship: What Happens When The Cutting Edge of Human
> >Knowledge is Available To All?
> >
> >
> >- Open Data: What Can We Build When The Sum Of All Human Knowledge is
> >Machine Readabl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering

2014-07-02 Thread Pierre-Selim 
Hi Carlos, thanks for the press release.

I just want to point out that as pictures are all CC-BY-SA it photographer
should be credited in order to respect the licence (or other terms should
be negociated with the copyright holder). It sounds weird to me that in a
press release we open the gate of not respecting the licence as something
possible. Yes I know other terms can be negociated directly with the
authors, however i'd rather we encourage strongly to respect the licence.

2014-07-01 18:09 GMT+02:00 Carlos Monterrey :

> (This press release is also available online
> here:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Summit_%E2%80%9CWikimania%E2%80%9D_comes_to_London_-_Largest_ever_gathering
> <
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_Wikipedia_Zero_extension_Myanmar
> >)
>
> Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering
>
>- *Featured speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and new
>Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Lila Tretikov; Thousands of
> Wikimedia
>volunteers; Leaders in Technology, Culture and Society. From August 8th
> to
>10th at the Barbican Centre; Tickets go on sale today.*
>
>
>- *Wikimania programme to focus on Social Machines, The Future of
>Education, Democratic Media, Open Scholarship & Open Data*
>
> Wikimania’s 2014 team today announce the programme for this year’s historic
> event. Wikimania 2014 will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from
> 8th to 10th August, with a two day pre-conference held August 6th and 7th.
> Over 4,000 attendees are expected; more than twice the number at any
> previous Wikimania.
>
> The future of Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, forms the central
> theme. As technological advances promise big changes on the platform,
> Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales will delve into what the future has in store
> for the world’s fifth most popular website.
>
> “Wikipedia is the largest knowledge base in the world, consulted by over
> half a billion people each month,” says Wales. “However, we’ve only just
> begun to scratch the surface of what can be done with it. Through
> international expansion, a new focus on open data, and a big investment in
> technology development, our movement is charting exciting new territory.”
>
> Attendees will also welcome Wikimedia’s new executive director, Lila
> Tretikov. Her keynote will focus on the impact of Wikipedia in our changing
> world and its potential for our future.
>
> Tretikov sees Wikipedia, a top five website, as an opportunity to for
> unlocking and democratizing knowledge globally: “I’d like us to think
> beyond what we know today. Think beyond our accomplishments, towards
> opportunities. Opportunities for all our collective minds to build the
> future of knowledge, collaboration and trust.” Recent developments have
> included plans focused on overhauling Wikipedia’s user experience for
> readers and editors, a programmatic approach to grant-making and community,
> and establishing a development platform for knowledge building.
>
> Open to the public, Wikimania is a five-day, community-organised event
> focusing on new projects in the world of MediaWiki, transparency, and open
> knowledge. Themes include collaborative working, natural language
> processing, crowdsourcing, education, journalism, scientific and medical
> research, open data, and multimedia.
>
> --- ends
> Programme Summary
>
> The conference is organised around five questions with massive implications
> for the future.
>
>- Social Machines: How Can Online Communities Unlock Humanity’s
>Potential?
>
>
>- The Future of Education: Now That Wikipedia Has Done Everyone’s
>Homework, What’s Left to Teach?
>
>
>- Democratic Media: Must All Media Be Commercially Driven?
>
>
>- Open Scholarship: What Happens When The Cutting Edge of Human
>Knowledge is Available To All?
>
>
>- Open Data: What Can We Build When The Sum Of All Human Knowledge is
>Machine Readable?
>
> Lectures from prominent leaders across technology and media will include
> the following.
>
>- Jack Andraka, inventor – At the age of 15 Andraka invented a possible
>new test for pancreatic cancer by using scientific research available he
>found on Wikipedia.
>
>
>- Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems
>Institute – Bar-Yam will explore how the complex system of Wikipedia
>applies to exposition of scientific enquiry and socio-cultural issues.
>
>
>- Professor Dariusz Jemielniak – Jemielniak will present an academic's
>perspective on Wikipedia's cultural and community structures via
> research
>from his book*Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia*.
>
>
>- Benjamin Mako Hill, researcher – Hill will give an overview of major
>research discoveries about Wikipedia from the past year.
>
>
>- Elizabeth Marincola, CEO, Public Library of Science – Marincola will
>share an upda

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia España (WM Spain) Report March and April 2014

2014-07-02 Thread Jorge Sierra 
Dear fellows,

Here is the Activity Report of Wikimedia España (WMES) for the months of
March and April 2014.

The report is also avaliable on this link:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/2014-03-04


Kind regards,

-- 
Jorge A. Sierra
Presidente
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es



March

   - 02.03.2014: Board meeting on IRC
   - 03.03.2014: Collaboration for press article about Wikipedia [1]
   
   - 05.03.2014: Creation of Telegram group to improve communication of
   members
   - 07.03.2014: Participation in "Taller d'experiències: Sí, les lletres
   tenen futur", a workshop about some different experiences in the world of
   humanities. In Vila-real, organized by Tardor 2013.
   - 07.03.2014: Photo coverage of Scorpions' concert in Madrid [2]
   

   - 08.03.2014: Photographic coverage of XXXVII Spanish Championship of
   Athletics indoor junior in Valencia [3]
   

   - 14-20.04.2014: Collaboration with evaluation committee of 2013/2014
   (8th) edition of the Concurso Universitario de Software Libre (University
   Contest of Libre Software) 
   - 16.03.2014: Meeting of members on IRC
   - 17.03.2014: Workshop about WikiArS, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons in
   Escuela de Arte 10 in Madrid [4]
   
   - 20.03.2014: Wikimedia Foundation aproved our grant request for CUSL8
   [5] 
   - 26.03.2014: Collaboration for press article about Crisis of Crimea in
   Wikipedia - Diario ABC. [6]
   

   - 27.03.2014: Photo coverage (collaboration with AAAG) of María Casares
   2014 Awards ceremony in A Coruña [7]
   

   - 28.03.2014: Workshop for employees of University of Valladolid and
   librarians at Reina Sofía Library of U. of Valladolid [8]
   

April

   - 04.04.2014: Workshop about editing Wikipedia at University Jaume I for
   librarians [9]
   

   - 04.04.2014: Talk and workshop about wikiArS and Wikimedia Commons. Libre
   Graphics Meeting 2014 
   - 04.04.2014: Wikimedia Commons seminary at Campus de Jerez of
   University of Cádiz. Poster, pictures and video-recording of the
   conference
   

   - 06.04.2014: Board meeting on IRC
   - 07-13.04.2014: Wikimedia Exhibition, with Wikimedia Commons pictures,
   in IES Juan de Garay, Valencia
   - 10-13.04.2014: Participation in Wikimedia Conference 2014 in Berlin
   - 11.04.2014: Two talks about Wikipedia and Wikimedia for students in
   IES Juan de Garay, Valencia
   - 11.04.2014: Meeting and lunch in Valencia
   - 12.04.2014: Photo coverage of awards ceremony of 12th Mestre Mateo
   Prizes in A Coruña.
   - 13.04.2014: Members meeting on IRC
   - 22.04.2014: Meeting with FECYT in Madrid
   - 23-24.04.2014: 4 Workshops (for professors and researchers;
   librarians; computer science students; agricultural engineering) about
   Wikipedia with the title "Wikipedia necesita a la Universidad" at
   University of La Laguna (Canary Islands) [10]
    Blog post
   

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