Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Algeria Wikimedians User Group
Congrats from Ghana. Good to see User Groups activated across Africa. Best, Enock. On 11/4/14, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote: Bienvenidos!! Enviado desde mi teléfono celular Disculpe la brevedad. El 04/11/2014 06:56, Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info escribió: Félicitations \o/ Congrats 2014-11-04 10:26 GMT+01:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: Congratulazioni! Benvenuti! Cristian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Pierre-Selim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- @Enock4seth User:Enock4seth ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Recognition of Algeria Wikimedians User Group
Congratulations to the Algerian User Group! Regards, Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh 2014-11-05 18:28 GMT+06:00 Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com: Congrats from Ghana. Good to see User Groups activated across Africa. Best, Enock. On 11/4/14, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote: Bienvenidos!! Enviado desde mi teléfono celular Disculpe la brevedad. El 04/11/2014 06:56, Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info escribió: Félicitations \o/ Congrats 2014-11-04 10:26 GMT+01:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: Congratulazioni! Benvenuti! Cristian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Pierre-Selim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- @Enock4seth User:Enock4seth ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Regards - Tanweer Morshed ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award
Wohoo! Congrats to Wikidata and congrats to all who have taken part in developing it. Thank you all! Alice. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey everyone :) I forgot to send this to wikimedia-l this morning as well... I'm incredibly happy to share the news with you that Wikidata has won the Open Data Award of the Open Data Institute in the category publisher. The world is starting to notice that we have something big with Wikidata. http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt Cheers Lydia -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey everyone, Wow! We won! \o/ This is incredible. I am so happy to see this recognition of all the work we've put into Wikidata together. Magnus and I had a blast at the award ceremony yesterday night. Here's a picture of us on stage with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee: https://twitter.com/opencorporates/status/529721444549550080 Here's Wikidata written in huge letters above the heads of the audience: https://twitter.com/marin_dim/status/529721419580854272 And here is Magnus and me with the price: https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/529723778558083074 I am delighted that they especially recognized the breath of topics Wikidata covers and that it has been developed in the open since the beginning. This award is for everyone in this community. We should be proud! This is a perfect start into year 3 of Wikidata :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award
Hurrah! This is wonderful to hear, and well deserved. SJ On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey everyone :) I forgot to send this to wikimedia-l this morning as well... I'm incredibly happy to share the news with you that Wikidata has won the Open Data Award of the Open Data Institute in the category publisher. The world is starting to notice that we have something big with Wikidata. http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt Cheers Lydia -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey everyone, Wow! We won! \o/ This is incredible. I am so happy to see this recognition of all the work we've put into Wikidata together. Magnus and I had a blast at the award ceremony yesterday night. Here's a picture of us on stage with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee: https://twitter.com/opencorporates/status/529721444549550080 Here's Wikidata written in huge letters above the heads of the audience: https://twitter.com/marin_dim/status/529721419580854272 And here is Magnus and me with the price: https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/529723778558083074 I am delighted that they especially recognized the breath of topics Wikidata covers and that it has been developed in the open since the beginning. This award is for everyone in this community. We should be proud! This is a perfect start into year 3 of Wikidata :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award
Amaze balls. Way to go. Very, very cool. /a On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Hurrah! This is wonderful to hear, and well deserved. SJ On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey everyone :) I forgot to send this to wikimedia-l this morning as well... I'm incredibly happy to share the news with you that Wikidata has won the Open Data Award of the Open Data Institute in the category publisher. The world is starting to notice that we have something big with Wikidata. http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt Cheers Lydia -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey everyone, Wow! We won! \o/ This is incredible. I am so happy to see this recognition of all the work we've put into Wikidata together. Magnus and I had a blast at the award ceremony yesterday night. Here's a picture of us on stage with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee: https://twitter.com/opencorporates/status/529721444549550080 Here's Wikidata written in huge letters above the heads of the audience: https://twitter.com/marin_dim/status/529721419580854272 And here is Magnus and me with the price: https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/529723778558083074 I am delighted that they especially recognized the breath of topics Wikidata covers and that it has been developed in the open since the beginning. This award is for everyone in this community. We should be proud! This is a perfect start into year 3 of Wikidata :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Anna Stillwell Senior Learning and Org Dev Lead Wikimedia Foundation 415.806.1536 *www.wikimediafoundation.org http://www.wikimediafoundation.org* Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art are equal expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. - Jacob Bronowski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award
Kudos \o/ and keep on the good work! Pierre-Selim Message d'origine De: Lydia Pintscher Envoyé: mercredi 5 novembre 2014 19:09 À: Wikimedia Mailing List Répondre à: Wikimedia Mailing List Objet: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award Hey everyone :) I forgot to send this to wikimedia-l this morning as well... I'm incredibly happy to share the news with you that Wikidata has won the Open Data Award of the Open Data Institute in the category publisher. The world is starting to notice that we have something big with Wikidata. http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt Cheers Lydia -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey everyone, Wow! We won! \o/ This is incredible. I am so happy to see this recognition of all the work we've put into Wikidata together. Magnus and I had a blast at the award ceremony yesterday night. Here's a picture of us on stage with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee: https://twitter.com/opencorporates/status/529721444549550080 Here's Wikidata written in huge letters above the heads of the audience: https://twitter.com/marin_dim/status/529721419580854272 And here is Magnus and me with the price: https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/529723778558083074 I am delighted that they especially recognized the breath of topics Wikidata covers and that it has been developed in the open since the beginning. This award is for everyone in this community. We should be proud! This is a perfect start into year 3 of Wikidata :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award
Very exciting news. Risker/Anne On 5 November 2014 14:19, Pierre-Selim ps.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Kudos \o/ and keep on the good work! Pierre-Selim Message d'origine De: Lydia Pintscher Envoyé: mercredi 5 novembre 2014 19:09 À: Wikimedia Mailing List Répondre à: Wikimedia Mailing List Objet: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award Hey everyone :) I forgot to send this to wikimedia-l this morning as well... I'm incredibly happy to share the news with you that Wikidata has won the Open Data Award of the Open Data Institute in the category publisher. The world is starting to notice that we have something big with Wikidata. http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt Cheers Lydia -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey everyone, Wow! We won! \o/ This is incredible. I am so happy to see this recognition of all the work we've put into Wikidata together. Magnus and I had a blast at the award ceremony yesterday night. Here's a picture of us on stage with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee: https://twitter.com/opencorporates/status/529721444549550080 Here's Wikidata written in huge letters above the heads of the audience: https://twitter.com/marin_dim/status/529721419580854272 And here is Magnus and me with the price: https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/529723778558083074 I am delighted that they especially recognized the breath of topics Wikidata covers and that it has been developed in the open since the beginning. This award is for everyone in this community. We should be proud! This is a perfect start into year 3 of Wikidata :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [OpenAccess] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
Hi! This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done. This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We should not be proud of this. (Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list. Which this is not.) Mitar On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available: NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign up on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or oca...@wikimedia.org Thanks! The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library ___ OpenAccess mailing list openacc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
(sorry this conversation is happening across multiple lists, I should have used cc for the emails... ) Responding to Mitar on open access: You know I think it's sad too that we have to go around asking for donations and selling Wikipedia's value as a portal to publishers. On the other hand, we have 500 million monthly readers and when they come to Wikipedia they will see the content we have summarized from sources. The only question is whether that content is from full-text-available-online sources *only*, or from all of the best sources regardless of their access status. At the end of my day, I have to serve our editors and readers as best I can and that means giving them as much access to the best research as possible today. You may think this is a devil's bargain, but I have to admit that I'm a pragmatist and I'd rather have our editors summarize paywalled content for our readers than for that content to not be represented on Wikipedia at all, even if readers may hit a paywall when they click-through. It's long been Wikipedia's policy (at least English Wikipedia) that accessibility is not a deciding factor when it comes to what is a reliable source. That applies to out of print manuscripts as well as to embargoed journals--we use the best sources now because we have an encyclopedia to write. If we aim to change that, it requires a very deep discussion about how we prioritize and strategize our mission. I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader, and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference experts and journals. The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak with librarians and journal publishers. In other words, the efforts of The Wikipedia Library advance our mission and are indeed *complementary* to the radical vision of open access that I wholeheartedly support. So, I hope you take this as my saying, I agree completely and also So what, we have an encyclopedia to write! Happy to continue discussing this. Best, Jake (Ocaasi) On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Mitar mmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done. This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We should not be proud of this. (Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list. Which this is not.) Mitar On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available: NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign up on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or oca...@wikimedia.org Thanks! The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library ___ OpenAccess mailing list openacc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m ___ OpenAccess mailing list openacc...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Update regarding WMF's reporting practices
Hi all -- Starting this month, WMF will be shifting its organization-wide reports from a monthly to a quarterly cadence. This reflects our growth as an organization, and is intended to make important developments more visible internally and externally. == Background == Shortly after Sue became WMF’s Executive Director, she started giving updates to the Board of Trustees about her work. These reports were compiled for accountability purposes, and not without some trepidation, Sue started sharing them publicly in January 2008. [1] The reports have grown in scope and depth alongside the organization. Where we think we can do better is in the following areas: - We've not defined the threshold for report-worthy work clearly enough, so work that represents a few person hours’ effort could get more space than a whole team’s work over the course of the quarter; - We've not consistently mapped reporting against organizational priorities; - We’re not presenting a strategic view on what we’re learning, where we’re changing direction and why; - We’re not helping users of the reports consistently discover quarterly review minutes, slides and other materials related to a specific area, in part due to the reports not being aligned with the quarterly rhythm. In addition, given the dependency on an increasing multitude of inputs (from across an organization that had fewer than 20 staff when these monthly reports were launched, and now has more than 200), the reports have increasingly gotten backlogged, to the point that we’re just now releasing the August report. At the same time, under Lila the organization has shifted into a recognizable quarterly rhythm. Priorities are defined quarterly, and reviews are being introduced following the end of each quarter for all significantly staffed projects. == A New Reporting Process == It’s come time for us to revisit the model we use for reporting, to clearly define the purpose/audience for these report, and to iterate on the monthly format. Purpose: The purpose of this report is accountability and learning within the movement. The report is not a storytelling tool. Any evaluation will be done with these objectives in mind. Audience: Its audience is chiefly internal, including community members, WMF staff, and interested donors/funders. Format: Effective immediately, we are shifting to a quarterly reporting format. This will impact our reporting, and the October through December reporting period, in the following ways: - Instead of three monthly reports for October, November, and December, we will publish our first quarterly report in February 2015. - We are reviewing the key organization-wide metrics and will improve the selection and presentation of numbers at the top level of the quarterly report. - We will closely align quarterly reports with quarterly reviews, and re-use high level findings from the quarterly reviews, while referring to the slide decks and minutes from the reviews for details. - We will aim to provide high-level synthesis and lessons learned, as well as strategy updates, through this format as well. Many of the more granular updates in the monthly report will no longer be reported. As above, the deadline for publication of the first report, covering October 1 - December 31, is February 15. For this first report, we are being conservative with regard to the deadline, as we will have our resources directed at our staff all-hands and developer summit in January. Tilman and I will begin creating a draft structure for this new report in coming weeks, and will do so in public from the get-go. We will also rethink the “Wikimedia Highlights” alongside other multilingual movements news formats, likely detaching them from reporting functions. Out of scope of this effort for now: - Providing more timely updates on initiatives with high user impact. We’re continuing to provide updates to Tech News [2] and similar newsletters, but we’re not currently doing a major overhaul here. - Replacing the monthly engineering report and its inputs, which also serve as a project status dashboard. [3] We are of course discussing how to improve on those mechanisms, and feedback is welcome. Let me know if you have any immediate questions or thoughts. Thanks, Erik [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2008-January/084883.html [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Dashboard -- Erik Möller VP of Product Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
