Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Update on Wikimania '17 - Scholarships, Registration, Submissions

[Jonathan Cardy]

Hi Dr Pavanaja,

Back in April you asked for a list of scholarship applicants and people 
explained why we only publicise the list of people who are awarded a grant, not 
the people whose applications are declined. The list of people awarded a grant 
has been published, your request for a list of applicants has not and hopefully 
won't ever be published. Nothing has changed. If people apply for a scholarship 
and are declined that remains a private matter between the applicant and the 
scholarship committee, unless of course the applicant chooses to say that they 
applied and didn't get a scholarship.

Regards

Jonathan

This was your email in April.

>>>  
>>> I would like WMF to make the list of applicants, their contributions, the 
>>> weightage used for each kind of contribution and the final list of 
>>> scholarship awardees in a table form. Since WMF is run by the contributions 
>>> of the volunteers, such a transparency is definitely needed from WMF. I 
>>> hope WMF will oblige.
>>>  
>>> Regards,
>>> Pavanaja



> On 17 May 2017, at 06:07, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> Long back when I asked for list of scholarship awardees, with their 
> usernames, someone answered saying that the usernames of scholarship awardees 
> can’t be disclosed. How come they have been disclosed now?
>  
> Regards,
> Pavanaja
>  
>  
> From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf 
> Of Ellie Young
> Sent: 17 May 2017 12:49 AM
> To: Wikimania general list (open subscription); Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: [Wikimania-l] Update on Wikimania '17 - Scholarships, Registration, 
> Submissions
>  
> Here's an update on various activities pertaining to our the upcoming 
> Wikimania '17 which is being held August 9-13 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
>  
> WMF Scholarship Program:  110 people were offered and subsequently accepted a 
> full or partial scholarship to attend.  The awardees are listed by user names 
> and the list is posted here:
>  
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars
>  
> Submissions:  The program committee has just finished it's review and 
> deliberations.  Rejections and acceptance emails are going out this week and 
> next.  We expect to post the program by the end of this month.
>  
> Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:
>  
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation
>  
> If you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor, 
> board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registration 
> and accommodation instructions.
>  
> If you have any questions about the conference, please email 
> wikimania-i...@wikimedia.org
>  
> Please spread the word
>  
> Thanks, Ellie
>  
>  
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> Events Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Update on Wikimania '17 - Scholarships, Registration, Submissions

[Adrian Raddatz]

You must have received faulty information. The recipients have always been
revealed, at least in past years.

Adrian Raddatz

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <
pavan...@vishvakannada.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Long back when I asked for list of scholarship awardees, with their
> usernames, someone answered saying that the usernames of scholarship
> awardees can’t be disclosed. How come they have been disclosed now?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Ellie Young
> *Sent:* 17 May 2017 12:49 AM
> *To:* Wikimania general list (open subscription); Wikimedia Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Wikimania-l] Update on Wikimania '17 - Scholarships,
> Registration, Submissions
>
>
>
> Here's an update on various activities pertaining to our the upcoming
> Wikimania '17 which is being held August 9-13 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
>
>
>
> WMF Scholarship Program:  110 people were offered and subsequently
> accepted a full or partial scholarship to attend.  The awardees are listed
> by user names and the list is posted here:
>
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars
>
>
>
> Submissions:  The program committee has just finished it's review and
> deliberations.  Rejections and acceptance emails are going out this week
> and next.  We expect to post the program by the end of this month.
>
>
>
> Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:
>
>
>
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
>
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation
>
>
>
> If you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor,
> board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registration
> and accommodation instructions.
>
>
>
> If you have any questions about the conference, please email
> wikimania-i...@wikimedia.org
>
>
>
> Please spread the word
>
>
>
> Thanks, Ellie
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Ellie Young
>
> Events Manager
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> eyo...@wikimedia.org
>
> ​
>
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[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 14 May 2017)

[Pine W]

I was glad to read in the WMF Blog
 of
an initiative by Wikimedia Canada and several partners to support Atikamekw
Wikipedia . I feel
that documenting, preserving, and sharing rare and/or endangered languages
are particularly good use cases for Wiktionary, Wikipedia, and Wikidata.

What's making you happy this week?

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee Recommendations - Round 2 of 2016-17

[Pine W]

For what it's worth, there has been previous discussions of having external
reviews of WMF spending, such as a peer review from a similar institution.
I think that this is a good idea. This also fits in with my long-standing
hope that WMF will become more transparent with its financial expenditures.

Pine


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Risker  wrote:

> On 16 May 2017 at 11:52, rupert THURNER  wrote:
>
> > Why the amount is missing for the WMF?
> >
> > Rupert
> >
> >
> >
> Hello Rupert -
>
> The Funds Dissemination Committee is not tasked with recommending funding
> for the Wikimedia Foundation; the committee only reviews and provides
> feedback on the draft annual plan.
>
> Risker/Anne
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Eileen Hershenov as General Counsel

[Samantha Lien]

This press release is available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_welcomes_Eileen_Hershenov_as_General_Counsel

And as a blog post on the Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/16/eileen-hershenov/


*Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Eileen Hershenov as General Counsel *

*Experienced general counsel brings nearly three decades of leadership in
media, intellectual property, civil liberties, and not-for-profit law*

(San Francisco, California) May 16, 2017 - The Wikimedia Foundation is
pleased to announce that Eileen Hershenov has joined the organization as
General Counsel. Eileen brings nearly 30 years of experience in media and
intellectual property law, civil rights and civil liberties law,
not-for-profit law and governance, and privacy and cyber-security.
Throughout her career, she has worked with mission-driven organizations to
promote equality, free expression, and openness.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports
Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. Together, Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia projects are visited by more than a billion unique devices every
month. The Wikimedia Foundation is driven by its mission to build a world
in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all human
knowledge.

As General Counsel, Eileen will lead an experienced team of attorneys and
public policy experts to defend the Wikimedia projects, communities, and
Foundation. She will be responsible for maintaining and developing the
legal infrastructure, policy, and relevant legal defenses for the Wikimedia
Foundation. She will also advise the Foundation on ethical and policy
positions around access to knowledge, freedom of speech, privacy,
copyright, and other issues relevant to the Wikimedia movement.

“Eileen is deeply committed to the values that make the Wikimedia movement
possible: free expression, access to knowledge, and a secure, open
internet,” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. “Her knowledge, passion, and leadership make her an excellent
addition to the Wikimedia Foundation and our global community.”

Previously, Eileen served as the founding general counsel for Consumers
Union, the not-for-profit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and
ConsumerReports.org. In that role, in addition to defending against legal
attacks on the organization’s product reviews and investigative journalism,
she was part of the executive leadership team charged with rethinking the
organization’s approach to public policy and advocacy. Eileen supported the
work of tens of thousands of volunteers who advocated for healthcare reform
and net neutrality, among other issues. She also played a lead role in
developing and implementing Consumer Reports’ evolving business policies,
which are designed to ensure and protect the organization’s independence
from commercial influence and special interests.

Prior to joining Consumers Union, Eileen spent 11 years at the Open Society
Foundations, where she served as General Counsel to the global foundation
network. In this position, Eileen led the development of an in-house legal
counsel department, overseeing the legal work of the foundations in more
than 30 countries. Her work with the Open Society Foundations supported the
efforts of local advocates in the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, as
well as in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. During her time at the Open
Society Foundations, Eileen also served as the founding general counsel for
Central European University, the first U.S.-accredited liberal arts
university located in a former communist country.

“Wikimedia is a shining example of what’s possible when the values of the
free and open internet are preserved,” Eileen said. “I’ve spent much of my
career supporting many of the same principles that have allowed Wikipedia
to flourish. I’m thrilled to join a global movement of people who are
committed to these values.”

Eileen began her career in public interest as an organizer and advocate for
victims of toxic substances who were denied court access to seek
restitution. Her legal work for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
marked the start of her passion for supporting free expression, free
access, and freedom of association. She currently serves on the boards of a
number of public interest justice organizations, including the advisory
board of the Future of Privacy Forum, and the governing board of the
Appleseed Foundation.

Eileen received her BA in Economics from Yale College, and graduated from
Yale Law School. She currently lives in the state of New York with her
family, and will be relocating to the Bay Area this summer.


*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
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operates Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects. Wikipedia is the
world’s free knowledge resource, spanning more than 40 million articles
across nearly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposed projects

[Jean-Philippe Béland]

I see that Wikilang had more "interested participants" than those that you
are linking and it was purely rejected, what do you mean by majority
support?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang

Thanks,

JP

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:58 PM Milos Rancic  wrote:

> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:29 PM, James Heilman  wrote:
> > Wikigames is not educational so not within scope.
>
> There are many educational games in the wild. They could also make us
> less boring.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Lodewijk]

Hi Milosh,

I'm afraid your arguments are not getting across to me. I understand you
don't like the quality, but I don't see the connection at all with the
structure it is set up in.

Also, while I appreciate you make the attempt here, you didn't add any
argumentation at all to this page you linked. If you go to that page, you
mostly see discussion from 2013 and 2015. No indication whatsoever of what
is the request, why it matters and why it would be open. No summary of
arguments, or reasoning.

If you want people to take this inquiry seriously, I suggest you look into
providing more structured information first. Otherwise, it's not hard to
predict the outcome of this round: nothing. Add the key information on the
top of the page please, if you're linking to it.

Best,
Lodewijk

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Milos Rancic  wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk 
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the pointer. On the proposal page, I'm missing a somewhat
> clear
> > and straightforward summary of the arguments in favor and against closing
> > (why is the request made, and what was considered). That seems like
> > valuable information for such discussion.
> >
> > Would you see the opportunity to summarize your view (or of the views of
> > the proposers) on the top of the page?
>
> In a little bit different words, I would say that Wikiversity has big
> ratio of embarrassment per language edition (I would avoid naming
> them, as they could be easily traced to the particular persons).
> Having in mind that Beta Wikiversity is presently the incubator for
> those projects, my position is that we should normalize it by moving
> the incubating process to the Incubator.
>
> There are other reasons listed here [1], most of which could be
> applied for Multilingual Wikisource, as well, but I see no reason why
> to the same with it, as the community of Multilingual Wikisource is
> doing a good job.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_
> projects/Move_Beta_Wikiversity_to_Incubator#Arguments_in_favor
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Draft Wiki Ed Annual Plan 2017-18

[LiAnna Davis]

(Standard apologies for the cross-post!)

The Wiki Education Foundation's draft annual report for 2016–17 and draft
annual plan for 2017–18 is now available on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Annual_Plan_2017-18_(draft)

This marks the first time that Wiki Ed staff have solicited Wikimedia
community comments and questions on our draft. We're doing so this year
based on conversations with members of the Simple APG Committee. As you can
see in our plan, Wiki Ed intends to enter the FDC process this fall. During
the review process from the Simple APG committee this spring, committee
members raised concerns about a lack of opportunity for comments on Wiki
Ed's draft annual plans. While we always publish our board-approved annual
plan on our website, we haven't offered a draft for comments in the past.
In an effort to be more transparent and respond to the Simple APG
committee's feedback, I've posted the draft of the annual plan on Meta and
invite comments and questions from the broader Wikimedia community on the
draft talk page. Comments made prior to May 28 will be taken into account
when Wiki Ed staff prepare a final version of the plan for the board to
vote upon.

As with all nonprofits, our board is the final decision-maker on our annual
plan.

LiAnna



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Wiki Education Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Board WMNL

[Pierre-Selim]

Congratulation to the new board (reelected members and new ones).

Sincerely,

Le 16 mai 2017 23:48, "Tim Moritz Hector" 
a écrit :

> Congratulations to the re-elected and new board-members! I wish you all the
> best for the term ahead.
>
> Warm regards
> Tim
>
>
> --
> Tim Moritz Hector
> Chair of the Board
> Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
>
>
> 2017-05-16 16:02 GMT+02:00 Delphine Ménard :
>
> > Welcome to the new members and congrats to the not so new!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Delphine
> >
> > 2017-05-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Frans Grijzenhout :
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > Wikimedia Netherlands had its AGM on April 22. During this meeting the
> > > annual Report 2016 was approved and a new Board was elected.
> > > On May 13 the new Board held its first official meeting and the
> different
> > > portfolios were reassigned.
> > >
> > > Frans Grijzenhout - chair
> > > Justus de Bruijn - secretary
> > > Marike van Roon - education program
> > > Harriet de Man - institutional relations
> > > Bart Nieuwenhuis - treasurer
> > > Mike Nicolaye (new board member) - community liaison
> > > Michel Wesseling (new board member) - sponsoring and outreach
> > >
> > > Mike is an active, long-time Wikipedian and Michel Wesseling is an
> > > information professional. We are very happy that these new board
> members
> > > are willing to share their experience with WMNL. We also want to thank
> > Jan
> > > Anton Brouwer who did an exellent job as our treasurer over the past 3
> > > years.
> > >
> > > Kind regards, Frans
> > >
> > >
> > > *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
> > > +31 6 5333 9499  -  http://www.wikimedia.nl/
> > >
> > > --
> > > *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
> > > *Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:*
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> > > 3500 AD  Utrecht3511 LH Utrecht
> > > Kamer van Koophandel 17189036
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Board WMNL

[Tim Moritz Hector]

Congratulations to the re-elected and new board-members! I wish you all the
best for the term ahead.

Warm regards
Tim


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Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.


2017-05-16 16:02 GMT+02:00 Delphine Ménard :

> Welcome to the new members and congrats to the not so new!
>
> Best,
>
> Delphine
>
> 2017-05-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Frans Grijzenhout :
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Wikimedia Netherlands had its AGM on April 22. During this meeting the
> > annual Report 2016 was approved and a new Board was elected.
> > On May 13 the new Board held its first official meeting and the different
> > portfolios were reassigned.
> >
> > Frans Grijzenhout - chair
> > Justus de Bruijn - secretary
> > Marike van Roon - education program
> > Harriet de Man - institutional relations
> > Bart Nieuwenhuis - treasurer
> > Mike Nicolaye (new board member) - community liaison
> > Michel Wesseling (new board member) - sponsoring and outreach
> >
> > Mike is an active, long-time Wikipedian and Michel Wesseling is an
> > information professional. We are very happy that these new board members
> > are willing to share their experience with WMNL. We also want to thank
> Jan
> > Anton Brouwer who did an exellent job as our treasurer over the past 3
> > years.
> >
> > Kind regards, Frans
> >
> >
> > *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
> > +31 6 5333 9499  -  http://www.wikimedia.nl/
> >
> > --
> > *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
> > *Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:*
> > Postbus 167   Mariaplaats 3
> > 3500 AD  Utrecht3511 LH Utrecht
> > Kamer van Koophandel 17189036
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[Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimania '17 - Scholarships, Registration, Submissions

[Ellie Young]

Here's an update on various activities pertaining to our the upcoming
Wikimania '17 which is being held August 9-13 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

WMF Scholarship Program:  110 people were offered and subsequently accepted
a full or partial scholarship to attend.  The awardees are listed by user
names and the list is posted here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars

Submissions:  The program committee has just finished it's review and
deliberations.  Rejections and acceptance emails are going out this week
and next.  We expect to post the program by the end of this month.

Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:

https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation

If you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor,
board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registration
and accommodation instructions.

If you have any questions about the conference, please email
wikimania-i...@wikimedia.org

Please spread the word

Thanks, Ellie


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: April 2017

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*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings
within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and
more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums.
You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

*This Month in GLAM – Issue IV, Volume VII – April 2017*
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Argentina report: End of contest, new heritaged donated and digitizing
workshop
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Argentina_report

Basque Country report: Students working on literature with new Wikipedian
in Residence
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Basque_Country_report

Belgium report: Brussels writing weeks; Dutch Language Union workshop;
Civic Lab Brussels start; Edit-a-thon Leuven
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Belgium_report

Brazil report: Wikimedia Conference, gender and International collaboration
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Brazil_report

Germany report: You may only harvest after putting a grain
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Germany_report

Ghana report: GLAM Ghana duly launched
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Ghana_report

Italy report: Open Data for Cultural Heritage
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Italy_report

Macedonia report: 12 Peaks hiking challenge
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Macedonia_report

Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the World: Photo hunt Chinsurah;
Photohunt public library Tilburg; Wikipedian in Residence for UNESCO's
Memory of the World programme in the Netherlands; Picture books from
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Netherlands_report

Spain report: Management and dissemination of cultural heritage
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Spain_report

Sweden report: GLAM-EduWiki collaboration awarded Pedagogy Award of the
year at Swedish museums; Connected Open Heritage
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Sweden_report

UK report: Bio-Medical History Residences
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/UK_report

USA report: New connections at the Library of Congress and Smithsonian
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/USA_report

Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Wikipedia_Library_report

Wikidata report: Federation and new datatypes
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Wikidata_report

WMF GLAM report: DPLAFest and Beyond
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/WMF_GLAM_report

Calendar: May's GLAM events
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Events


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee Recommendations - Round 2 of 2016-17

[Risker]

On 16 May 2017 at 11:52, rupert THURNER  wrote:

> Why the amount is missing for the WMF?
>
> Rupert
>
>
>
Hello Rupert -

The Funds Dissemination Committee is not tasked with recommending funding
for the Wikimedia Foundation; the committee only reviews and provides
feedback on the draft annual plan.

Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Mind of the Universe: public broadcaster works with Wikimedia movement

[Anna Stillwell]

This sounds like a valuable project. Thank you.
/a

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Delphine Ménard 
wrote:

> I am glad this project came to fruition and looking forward to see what
> comes out of it!
>
> Thanks for facilitating this discussion Wikimedia Nederland!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Delphine
>
> 2017-05-15 10:45 GMT+02:00 Wikimedia Nederland :
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We would like to share with you:
> >
> > Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and the Institute for Sound and Vision are
> > cooperating with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Nederland to make
> > unique footage about groundbreaking sciene available.
> >
> > The Mind of the Universe  is an
> > international tv series and open source digital platform
> >  about the rapid evolution of our
> > knowledge. Through interviews with groundbreaking scientists, it
> provides a
> > glimpse of tomorrow’s world,
> >
> > The interviews were produced in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Dutch public
> > broadcaster VPRO for a tv series, VPRO decided from the start that all
> > materials (including footage not used for the documentary) would be made
> > available under an open license. The platform Mind of the Universe Open
> > Science TV  provides access to all
> > this material. It also has transcripts of the interviews, which are
> >  searchable by keyword. All materials can be downloaded and re-used, as
> > they were published under a CC-BY-SA license.
> >
> > With the help of a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and working
> closely
> > with Wikimedia Nederland, the Institute for Sound and Vision will host a
> > series of events to promote use Mind of the Universe material throughout
> > the Wikimedia projects. They will also produce a white paper to share
> their
> > experiences and promote the concept of CC-BY-SA licensing among public
> > broadcasters worldwide. For the Wikimedia projects the Mind of the
> Universe
> > material is a valuable contribution: it is professionally made material,
> > featuring the leading scientists of today explaining the state of
> research
> > in their fields of work. The material also includes footage of research
> > facilities, including some which had never before allowed cameras inside.
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >
> > Wikimedia Nederland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee Recommendations - Round 2 of 2016-17

[rupert THURNER]

Why the amount is missing for the WMF?

Rupert


On May 15, 2017 12:21 PM, "Risker"  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
> The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to make
> recommendations about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve
> the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy.  This is now the
> 9th round of allocations made by the FDC, and we met in person from May
> 12-14, 2017 in Warsaw to deliberate on 4 proposals submitted this round, as
> well as to provide feedback on the Wikimedia Foundation draft Annual Plan.
> We would like to thank all of the participating organizations for the hard
> work they put into this round’s proposals.
>
>
> Our recommendations for Round 2 2016-2017 on the annual plan grants to the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have now been posted on Meta.[1] The
> Board will review our deliberations and make a decision by July 1, 2017.
>
>
> We received grant requests for approximately USD 1,430,000 this round.
> Before we met, committee members reviewed all of the proposals and
> documents submitted.  We were assisted in this review with input from the
> FDC staff assessments which included analysis on impact, finances, and
> programs, as well as community comments on the proposals.
>
>
> As you may know, there is a formal process to submit complaints or appeals
> about these recommendations. Here are the steps for both:
>
>
> Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s Round 1
> recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC by
> 23:59 UTC on 8 June 2017 in accord with the appeal process outlined in the
> FDC Framework [2]. A formal appeal to challenge the FDC’s recommendation
> should be in the form of a 500-or-fewer word summary directed to the two
> non-voting WMF Board representatives to the FDC, Dariusz Jemielniak and
> Christophe Henner. The appeal should be submitted on-wiki, and must be
> submitted by the Board Chair of a funding-seeking applicant. The Wikimedia
> Foundation Board will publish its decision on this and all recommendations
> by July 1, 2017.
>
>
> Anyone can file a complaint about the FDC process [3] with the Ombudsperson
> at any time. The complaint should be submitted on wiki, as well. The
> Ombudsperson will publicly document the complaint, and investigate as
> needed.
>
>
>
> On behalf of the FDC,
>
>
> Anne Clin / Risker
>
> FDC Chair
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2016-2017_
> round_2
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Appeals_to_
> the_Board_on_the_
> recommendations_of_the_FDC
>
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Complaints_
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Mind of the Universe: public broadcaster works with Wikimedia movement

[Delphine Ménard]

I am glad this project came to fruition and looking forward to see what
comes out of it!

Thanks for facilitating this discussion Wikimedia Nederland!

Cheers,

Delphine

2017-05-15 10:45 GMT+02:00 Wikimedia Nederland :

> Hello all,
>
> We would like to share with you:
>
> Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and the Institute for Sound and Vision are
> cooperating with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Nederland to make
> unique footage about groundbreaking sciene available.
>
> The Mind of the Universe  is an
> international tv series and open source digital platform
>  about the rapid evolution of our
> knowledge. Through interviews with groundbreaking scientists, it provides a
> glimpse of tomorrow’s world,
>
> The interviews were produced in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Dutch public
> broadcaster VPRO for a tv series, VPRO decided from the start that all
> materials (including footage not used for the documentary) would be made
> available under an open license. The platform Mind of the Universe Open
> Science TV  provides access to all
> this material. It also has transcripts of the interviews, which are
>  searchable by keyword. All materials can be downloaded and re-used, as
> they were published under a CC-BY-SA license.
>
> With the help of a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and working closely
> with Wikimedia Nederland, the Institute for Sound and Vision will host a
> series of events to promote use Mind of the Universe material throughout
> the Wikimedia projects. They will also produce a white paper to share their
> experiences and promote the concept of CC-BY-SA licensing among public
> broadcasters worldwide. For the Wikimedia projects the Mind of the Universe
> material is a valuable contribution: it is professionally made material,
> featuring the leading scientists of today explaining the state of research
> in their fields of work. The material also includes footage of research
> facilities, including some which had never before allowed cameras inside.
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Wikimedia Nederland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Board WMNL

[Delphine Ménard]

Welcome to the new members and congrats to the not so new!

Best,

Delphine

2017-05-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Frans Grijzenhout :

> Dear all,
>
> Wikimedia Netherlands had its AGM on April 22. During this meeting the
> annual Report 2016 was approved and a new Board was elected.
> On May 13 the new Board held its first official meeting and the different
> portfolios were reassigned.
>
> Frans Grijzenhout - chair
> Justus de Bruijn - secretary
> Marike van Roon - education program
> Harriet de Man - institutional relations
> Bart Nieuwenhuis - treasurer
> Mike Nicolaye (new board member) - community liaison
> Michel Wesseling (new board member) - sponsoring and outreach
>
> Mike is an active, long-time Wikipedian and Michel Wesseling is an
> information professional. We are very happy that these new board members
> are willing to share their experience with WMNL. We also want to thank Jan
> Anton Brouwer who did an exellent job as our treasurer over the past 3
> years.
>
> Kind regards, Frans
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Widespread perfomance issues

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hi Rogol,

I'm not sure what you're referring to when you're talking about a
"recovery plan". These are all pretty standard day-to-day operations for
us.

This was a small outage, affecting only a small portion of European
traffic (and tiny portion of our global traffic) and not what we'd call
a "widespread" one -- very far from it. It wasn't even noticeable in
traffic graphs at all. This was the result of a networking issue in an
intermediate provider between us and the ISPs affected, so nothing that
was in our direct control.

This could have been remediated by either a) the intermediate provider
fixing or working around the issue b) us disabling the use of that
provider temporarily c) the affected ISPs (like Fastweb) disabling the
use of that provider temporarily. In this case, we did not wait for (a)
or (c) and worked around the issue ourselves, faster than Fastweb etc.
did (and in less than an hour even since the initial report). I think
the response from our side and our engineers (and especially Arzhel) was
pretty stellar.

Faidon

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 09:00:06PM +0100, Rogol Domedonfors wrote:
> Faidon
> 
> Do you believe that your recovery plan was adequate or will you be
> reviewing it in the light of this widespread outage?
> 
> "Rogol"
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Faidon Liambotis 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Cristian,
> >
> > We've had some network connectivity issues with one of our ISPs in our
> > European datacenter that were probably the source of your problems
> > (FastWeb in Italy were among the affected ISPs). This was a localized
> > issue -- only in the European datacenter and one out of six major
> > network carriers and dozens of network connectivity partners.
> >
> > The issue has been worked around as of 09:26 UTC and the situation is
> > being monitored.
> >
> > This issue is being tracked at:
> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165288
> >
> > Do let us know if this is not the case for you of if you're experiencing
> > any trouble, here, off-list or directly on that Phabricator task.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Faidon
> > --
> > Faidon Liambotis
> > Principal Operations Engineer
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:02:39AM +0200, Cristian Consonni wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > At Wikimedia Italia have been contacted in the last few minutes because
> > > Wikipedia seems unreachable and very slow from Italy.
> > >
> > > The status pages for servers and services signals several perfomance
> > issues:
> > > https://status.wikimedia.org/
> > >
> > > Does somebody know what's going on?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Cristian
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Samuele Mantani]

I'm also talking about beta.Wikiversity administrator. I am opposed to this
proposal because I think it is advantageous to keep beta.Wikiversity for a
variety of reasons: to help create new Wikiversity and to have a special
project could stimulate the creation of new Wikiversity (also note that
Wikiversity is The project with less language versions). Plus having
beta.Wikiversity is easier to monitor the creation of new pages in the
various wikiversity hosts on beta.Wikiversity also the beta function is to
be a reference point for the communities of various Wikiversity in any
language (eg a few months ago there We are coordinated and decided there to
edit the Wikiversity logo) both for proposals that relate to the project
and to help individual wikiversities in introducing into original searches.
In addition, beta.Wikiversity would be the place to test experimentation on
the project or to try extensions (eg Education_Program and Quiz) all this
if beta.Wikiversity was moved to an incubator would not be possible.

User:Samuele2002

Il 16/Mag/2017 01:36 PM, "Milos Rancic"  ha scritto:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
>  wrote:
> > Pretty please, let's not even mention Multilngual Wikisource here. There
> is
> > no plan to close it and it's not related to this discussion at all.
> >
> > This discussion is only about Beta Wikiversity.
>
> True. The problem is that the request page has been created to cover
> both projects and it's full of reasoning which cover Multilingual
> Wikisource, as well; so I wanted to be clear that we are not talking
> about it :)
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Milos Rancic]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
 wrote:
> Pretty please, let's not even mention Multilngual Wikisource here. There is
> no plan to close it and it's not related to this discussion at all.
>
> This discussion is only about Beta Wikiversity.

True. The problem is that the request page has been created to cover
both projects and it's full of reasoning which cover Multilingual
Wikisource, as well; so I wanted to be clear that we are not talking
about it :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2017-05-16 14:28 GMT+03:00 Milos Rancic :

> There are other reasons listed here [1], most of which could be
> applied for Multilingual Wikisource, as well, but I see no reason why
> to the same with it, as the community of Multilingual Wikisource is
> doing a good job.
>
>
>
Pretty please, let's not even mention Multilngual Wikisource here. There is
no plan to close it and it's not related to this discussion at all.

This discussion is only about Beta Wikiversity.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Milos Rancic]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk  wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. On the proposal page, I'm missing a somewhat clear
> and straightforward summary of the arguments in favor and against closing
> (why is the request made, and what was considered). That seems like
> valuable information for such discussion.
>
> Would you see the opportunity to summarize your view (or of the views of
> the proposers) on the top of the page?

In a little bit different words, I would say that Wikiversity has big
ratio of embarrassment per language edition (I would avoid naming
them, as they could be easily traced to the particular persons).
Having in mind that Beta Wikiversity is presently the incubator for
those projects, my position is that we should normalize it by moving
the incubating process to the Incubator.

There are other reasons listed here [1], most of which could be
applied for Multilingual Wikisource, as well, but I see no reason why
to the same with it, as the community of Multilingual Wikisource is
doing a good job.

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Move_Beta_Wikiversity_to_Incubator#Arguments_in_favor

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[Wikimedia-l] New Board WMNL

[Frans Grijzenhout]

Dear all,

Wikimedia Netherlands had its AGM on April 22. During this meeting the
annual Report 2016 was approved and a new Board was elected.
On May 13 the new Board held its first official meeting and the different
portfolios were reassigned.

Frans Grijzenhout - chair
Justus de Bruijn - secretary
Marike van Roon - education program
Harriet de Man - institutional relations
Bart Nieuwenhuis - treasurer
Mike Nicolaye (new board member) - community liaison
Michel Wesseling (new board member) - sponsoring and outreach

Mike is an active, long-time Wikipedian and Michel Wesseling is an
information professional. We are very happy that these new board members
are willing to share their experience with WMNL. We also want to thank Jan
Anton Brouwer who did an exellent job as our treasurer over the past 3
years.

Kind regards, Frans


*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Lodewijk]

Hi Milos,

Thanks for the pointer. On the proposal page, I'm missing a somewhat clear
and straightforward summary of the arguments in favor and against closing
(why is the request made, and what was considered). That seems like
valuable information for such discussion.

Would you see the opportunity to summarize your view (or of the views of
the proposers) on the top of the page?

Thanks in advance!

Lodewijk

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Milos Rancic  wrote:

> There is the proposal for moving Beta Wikiversity into the Incubator
> [1]. According to the Closing project policy [2], the decision about
> closing projects is something done by particular members of the
> Language committee (while the Board could veto the decision).
>
> However, this is an unusual request with the positive positive outcome
> and I would like to hear wider community explicitly again.
>
> My position is -- and unless I get good arguments against I would send
> it to the Board -- that Beta Wikiversity should be closed, as it's a
> generator of projects lead by lunatics. "Academic freedom" has not
> been fruitful and any new request for Wikiversity should pass regular
> Incubator rules, inside of the curator environment fully trusted by
> the Language committee.
>
> The decision would be to move relevant content to the Incubator and
> let Incubator curators decide if any of the Beta Wikiversity admins
> should have adminship transferred. Beta Wikiversity would be closed
> and after some time (a year or two), it should be deleted.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_
> projects/Move_Beta_Wikiversity_to_Incubator
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

[Milos Rancic]

There is the proposal for moving Beta Wikiversity into the Incubator
[1]. According to the Closing project policy [2], the decision about
closing projects is something done by particular members of the
Language committee (while the Board could veto the decision).

However, this is an unusual request with the positive positive outcome
and I would like to hear wider community explicitly again.

My position is -- and unless I get good arguments against I would send
it to the Board -- that Beta Wikiversity should be closed, as it's a
generator of projects lead by lunatics. "Academic freedom" has not
been fruitful and any new request for Wikiversity should pass regular
Incubator rules, inside of the curator environment fully trusted by
the Language committee.

The decision would be to move relevant content to the Incubator and
let Incubator curators decide if any of the Beta Wikiversity admins
should have adminship transferred. Beta Wikiversity would be closed
and after some time (a year or two), it should be deleted.

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Move_Beta_Wikiversity_to_Incubator
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy

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Milos

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