Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2018 Ombuds Commission members

[Samuel Klein]

I was thinking the same thing.  :)

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Philippe Beaudette 
wrote:

> Great group!  This is such an important role, it's good to see serious
> people filling it.
>
> On Jan 31, 2018 3:47 PM, "Karen Brown"  wrote:
>
> > Apologies for the broken formatting in my original message! I forgot how
> > Mailman handles HTML in messages. Please see below for (hopefully) a more
> > legible version of the announcement:
> > ---
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am happy to announce the new and returning members of the 2018
> Ombudsman
> > Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
> > about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
> > use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
> > Board of Trustees.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_
> > the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
> >
> > I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
> >
> > The application period for new commissioners for 2018 recently closed.
> The
> > Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
> > insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work. This year we
> > received applications representing the widest variety of languages,
> > projects, and regions I’ve seen since I started working with the
> committee
> > three years ago.
> >
> > Given the increasing caseload OC has been handing year over year, we have
> > decided to take advantage of the opportunity the diverse candidate pool
> > afforded us and expand the committee by one seat; this year’s OC will
> > consist of eight, rather than seven, members, with a two-member advisory
> > team who will guide the new commission.
> >
> > I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2018 OC. First, the *new
> > members* are:
> >
> > *Billinghurst*
> > Billinghurst () is a
> > long-term Metapedian/Wikimedian who served as a steward from 2012 to 2016
> > and still serves as a global sysop. He considers his home wiki to be the
> > English Wikisource where he's performed over 260,000 edits and focuses on
> > transcribing biographical reference data from the 19th and early 20thC.
> In
> > addition, however, to serving as a local administrator on Wikisource he
> > also holds the sysop hat on Commons, Meta and the English Wikipedia
> racking
> > up almost 700,000 edits across the projects with almost a million edits
> > when you count his bot. He claims to still have a bit of wisdom and
> > knowledge to give.
> >
> > *Jamie Tubers*
> > Sam, who edits as Jamie Tubers (<
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamie_Tubers>), joined the English
> > language Wikipedia community in 2011 and has over the years expanded his
> > activities into a wide range of movement activities including co-founding
> > the Wikimedia user group Nigeria and helping to organize events like Wiki
> > Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women. He is dedicated to correcting our
> > content gaps and biases related to Africa and raising awareness of the
> > projects on the continent.
> >
> > *Dyolf77*
> > Habib () started editing
> in
> > 2010 and has been heavily engaged in community affairs, both onwiki and
> as
> > part of user groups, for years. A native of Tunisia, he has been a
> > free-culture advocate on a wide range of issues in and beyond the
> movement.
> > Onwiki, you can mainly find him helping out on Commons, where he is a
> > sysop, as well as the Arabic and French language editions of Wikipedia.
> >
> > *Saileshpat*
> > Saileshpat () started
> > editing Wikipedia in 2012 and soon became deeply involved in the Odia
> > community. He has helped organize outreach events and worked to spread
> > awareness in his region. In addition he was one of the co-organizers of
> > WikiConference India 2016. Saileshpat has helped in a content relicensing
> > process, where the Government of Odisha decided to release content under
> > Creative Commons licenses. Online he is mainly active on the Odia
> Wikipedia
> > and Commons.
> >
> > *Elmacenderesi*
> > Elmacenderesi () has
> > been working on Wikimedia projects since 2007, primarily on the Turkish
> > Wikipedia. There, he has been a CheckUser and a Bureaucrat since 2008 and
> > an Oversighter since 2011. He is also a member of Wikimedia OTRS and
> serves
> > as a global outreach coordinator, working with academic institutions and
> > GLAMs, for The Wikipedia Library.
> >
> > *Teles*
> > Lucas () became a Wikipedian
> > in
> > 2007 and started to engage with CheckUser rights in 2009, when he became
> a
> > local CU on the Portuguese Wikipedia. He held both Oversight and
> Checkuser
> > rights on Ptwiki between 2015 and 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2018 Ombuds Commission members

[Philippe Beaudette]

Great group!  This is such an important role, it's good to see serious
people filling it.

On Jan 31, 2018 3:47 PM, "Karen Brown"  wrote:

> Apologies for the broken formatting in my original message! I forgot how
> Mailman handles HTML in messages. Please see below for (hopefully) a more
> legible version of the announcement:
> ---
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am happy to announce the new and returning members of the 2018 Ombudsman
> Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
> about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
> use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
> Board of Trustees.
>
> [1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_
> the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
>
> I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
>
> The application period for new commissioners for 2018 recently closed. The
> Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
> insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work. This year we
> received applications representing the widest variety of languages,
> projects, and regions I’ve seen since I started working with the committee
> three years ago.
>
> Given the increasing caseload OC has been handing year over year, we have
> decided to take advantage of the opportunity the diverse candidate pool
> afforded us and expand the committee by one seat; this year’s OC will
> consist of eight, rather than seven, members, with a two-member advisory
> team who will guide the new commission.
>
> I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2018 OC. First, the *new
> members* are:
>
> *Billinghurst*
> Billinghurst () is a
> long-term Metapedian/Wikimedian who served as a steward from 2012 to 2016
> and still serves as a global sysop. He considers his home wiki to be the
> English Wikisource where he's performed over 260,000 edits and focuses on
> transcribing biographical reference data from the 19th and early 20thC. In
> addition, however, to serving as a local administrator on Wikisource he
> also holds the sysop hat on Commons, Meta and the English Wikipedia racking
> up almost 700,000 edits across the projects with almost a million edits
> when you count his bot. He claims to still have a bit of wisdom and
> knowledge to give.
>
> *Jamie Tubers*
> Sam, who edits as Jamie Tubers (<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamie_Tubers>), joined the English
> language Wikipedia community in 2011 and has over the years expanded his
> activities into a wide range of movement activities including co-founding
> the Wikimedia user group Nigeria and helping to organize events like Wiki
> Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women. He is dedicated to correcting our
> content gaps and biases related to Africa and raising awareness of the
> projects on the continent.
>
> *Dyolf77*
> Habib () started editing in
> 2010 and has been heavily engaged in community affairs, both onwiki and as
> part of user groups, for years. A native of Tunisia, he has been a
> free-culture advocate on a wide range of issues in and beyond the movement.
> Onwiki, you can mainly find him helping out on Commons, where he is a
> sysop, as well as the Arabic and French language editions of Wikipedia.
>
> *Saileshpat*
> Saileshpat () started
> editing Wikipedia in 2012 and soon became deeply involved in the Odia
> community. He has helped organize outreach events and worked to spread
> awareness in his region. In addition he was one of the co-organizers of
> WikiConference India 2016. Saileshpat has helped in a content relicensing
> process, where the Government of Odisha decided to release content under
> Creative Commons licenses. Online he is mainly active on the Odia Wikipedia
> and Commons.
>
> *Elmacenderesi*
> Elmacenderesi () has
> been working on Wikimedia projects since 2007, primarily on the Turkish
> Wikipedia. There, he has been a CheckUser and a Bureaucrat since 2008 and
> an Oversighter since 2011. He is also a member of Wikimedia OTRS and serves
> as a global outreach coordinator, working with academic institutions and
> GLAMs, for The Wikipedia Library.
>
> *Teles*
> Lucas () became a Wikipedian
> in
> 2007 and started to engage with CheckUser rights in 2009, when he became a
> local CU on the Portuguese Wikipedia. He held both Oversight and Checkuser
> rights on Ptwiki between 2015 and 2017, when his term with the rights
> expired. He is currently an administrator on Commons. His traditional main
> focus has been on anti-vandalism work. In 2012, the global community
> elected him as a steward, a position he has held since.
>
> In addition, experienced OC members Lankiveil and Góngora will be
> *returning
> as 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2018 Ombuds Commission members

[Karen Brown]

Apologies for the broken formatting in my original message! I forgot how
Mailman handles HTML in messages. Please see below for (hopefully) a more
legible version of the announcement:
---

Hello all,

I am happy to announce the new and returning members of the 2018 Ombudsman
Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
Board of Trustees.

[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission

I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)

The application period for new commissioners for 2018 recently closed. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work. This year we
received applications representing the widest variety of languages,
projects, and regions I’ve seen since I started working with the committee
three years ago.

Given the increasing caseload OC has been handing year over year, we have
decided to take advantage of the opportunity the diverse candidate pool
afforded us and expand the committee by one seat; this year’s OC will
consist of eight, rather than seven, members, with a two-member advisory
team who will guide the new commission.

I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2018 OC. First, the *new
members* are:

*Billinghurst*
Billinghurst () is a
long-term Metapedian/Wikimedian who served as a steward from 2012 to 2016
and still serves as a global sysop. He considers his home wiki to be the
English Wikisource where he's performed over 260,000 edits and focuses on
transcribing biographical reference data from the 19th and early 20thC. In
addition, however, to serving as a local administrator on Wikisource he
also holds the sysop hat on Commons, Meta and the English Wikipedia racking
up almost 700,000 edits across the projects with almost a million edits
when you count his bot. He claims to still have a bit of wisdom and
knowledge to give.

*Jamie Tubers*
Sam, who edits as Jamie Tubers (<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamie_Tubers>), joined the English
language Wikipedia community in 2011 and has over the years expanded his
activities into a wide range of movement activities including co-founding
the Wikimedia user group Nigeria and helping to organize events like Wiki
Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women. He is dedicated to correcting our
content gaps and biases related to Africa and raising awareness of the
projects on the continent.

*Dyolf77*
Habib () started editing in
2010 and has been heavily engaged in community affairs, both onwiki and as
part of user groups, for years. A native of Tunisia, he has been a
free-culture advocate on a wide range of issues in and beyond the movement.
Onwiki, you can mainly find him helping out on Commons, where he is a
sysop, as well as the Arabic and French language editions of Wikipedia.

*Saileshpat*
Saileshpat () started
editing Wikipedia in 2012 and soon became deeply involved in the Odia
community. He has helped organize outreach events and worked to spread
awareness in his region. In addition he was one of the co-organizers of
WikiConference India 2016. Saileshpat has helped in a content relicensing
process, where the Government of Odisha decided to release content under
Creative Commons licenses. Online he is mainly active on the Odia Wikipedia
and Commons.

*Elmacenderesi*
Elmacenderesi () has
been working on Wikimedia projects since 2007, primarily on the Turkish
Wikipedia. There, he has been a CheckUser and a Bureaucrat since 2008 and
an Oversighter since 2011. He is also a member of Wikimedia OTRS and serves
as a global outreach coordinator, working with academic institutions and
GLAMs, for The Wikipedia Library.

*Teles*
Lucas () became a Wikipedian in
2007 and started to engage with CheckUser rights in 2009, when he became a
local CU on the Portuguese Wikipedia. He held both Oversight and Checkuser
rights on Ptwiki between 2015 and 2017, when his term with the rights
expired. He is currently an administrator on Commons. His traditional main
focus has been on anti-vandalism work. In 2012, the global community
elected him as a steward, a position he has held since.

In addition, experienced OC members Lankiveil and Góngora will be *returning
as members of the Ombuds Commission*:

*Lankiveil*
Lankiveil () is a long-term
user, admin, and oversighter on the English Wikipedia, having made his
first edits in 2004. He served on the Ombuds Commission in 2017, and is
also an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes edits at Irish Wikipedia, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Halibutt has passed

[Mardetanha]

Very sad to learn this, he was a good friend and great wikipedian, learnt a
lot fron him about polands history, may his soul rest in peace

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:54 AM Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska <
natalia.szaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sad to inform you that today Krzysztof Machocki (user:Halibutt) has
> passed away. With his passing our community loses a brilliant and
> passionate Wikimedian and Wikimedia Polska loses a valued spokeperson. But
> what is the most important - many of us lose a beloved, beloved friend.
>
> Krzysztof was known for his joy and passion. For his faith in how Wikipedia
> makes the world better.
> We lose him but let us not lose that faith.
>
> There is a memorial page on Polish Wikipedia. You can leave your
> condolences there and we will give them to Krzysztof's family.
>
> https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Halibutt/Ksi%C4%99ga
>
>
> --
> Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
>
> <
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail
> >
> Wolny
> od wirusów. www.avast.com
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> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2018 Ombuds Commission members

[Karen Brown]

*Hello all,I am happy to announce the new and returning members of the 2018
Ombudsman Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate
complaints about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular
concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia
project for the Board of Trustees.[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
I
apologize for the length of the announcement. :)The application period for
new commissioners for 2018 recently closed. The Wikimedia Foundation is
extremely grateful to the many experienced and insightful volunteers who
offered to assist with this work. This year we received applications
representing the widest variety of languages, projects, and regions I’ve
seen since I started working with the committee three years ago.Given the
increasing caseload OC has been handing year over year, we have decided to
take advantage of the opportunity the diverse candidate pool afforded us
and expand the committee by one seat; this year’s OC will consist of eight,
rather than seven, members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide
the new commission.I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2018 OC.
First, the new members are:Billinghurst
Billinghurst is a
long-term Metapedian/Wikimedian who served as a steward from 2012 to 2016
and still serves as a global sysop. He considers his home wiki to be the
English Wikisource where he's performed over 260,000 edits and focuses on
transcribing biographical reference data from the 19th and early 20thC. In
addition, however, to serving as a local administrator on Wikisource he
also holds the sysop hat on Commons, Meta and the English Wikipedia racking
up almost 700,000 edits across the projects with almost a million edits
when you count his bot. He claims to still have a bit of wisdom and
knowledge to give. Jamie Tubers
Sam, who edits as Jamie
Tubers, joined the English language Wikipedia community in 2011 and has
over the years expanded his activities into a wide range of movement
activities including co-founding the Wikimedia user group Nigeria and
helping to organize events like Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women. He
is dedicated to correcting our content gaps and biases related to Africa
and raising awareness of the projects on the continent.Dyolf77
Habib started editing in 2010
and has been heavily engaged in community affairs, both onwiki and as part
of user groups, for years. A native of Tunisia, he has been a free-culture
advocate on a wide range of issues in and beyond the movement. Onwiki, you
can mainly find him helping out on Commons, where he is a sysop, as well as
the Arabic and French language editions of Wikipedia.Saileshpat
Saileshpat started editing
Wikipedia in 2012 and soon became deeply involved in the Odia community. He
has helped organize outreach events and worked to spread awareness in his
region. In addition he was one of the co-organizers of WikiConference India
2016. Saileshpat has helped in a content relicensing process, where the
Government of Odisha decided to release content under Creative Commons
licenses. Online he is mainly active on the Odia Wikipedia and
Commons.Elmacenderesi
Elmacenderesi has been
working on Wikimedia projects since 2007, primarily on the Turkish
Wikipedia. There, he has been a CheckUser and a Bureaucrat since 2008 and
an Oversighter since 2011. He is also a member of Wikimedia OTRS and serves
as a global outreach coordinator, working with academic institutions and
GLAMs, for The Wikipedia Library.Teles
Lucas became a Wikipedian in
2007 and started to engage with CheckUser rights in 2009, when he became a
local CU on the Portuguese Wikipedia. He held both Oversight and Checkuser
rights on Ptwiki between 2015 and 2017, when his term with the rights
expired. He is currently an administrator on Commons. His traditional main
focus has been on anti-vandalism work. In 2012, the global community
elected him as a steward, a position he has held since.In addition,
experienced OC members Lankiveil and Góngora will be returning as members
of the Ombuds Commission:Lankiveil
Lankiveil is a long-term
user, admin, and oversighter on the English Wikipedia, having made his
first edits in 2004. He served on the Ombuds Commission in 2017, and is
also an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes edits at Irish Wikipedia, and
Wikidata. He is a native speaker of Australian English and is a member of
Wikimedia Australia.Góngora
Góngora, J. 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New language code for Western Armenian language

[Delphine Ménard]

Congratulations to Wikimedia Armenia for those truly great efforts!

best,

Delphine

2018-01-31 11:39 GMT+01:00 David Saroyan :

> Dear all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that the efforts of Wikimedia Armenia to get
> separate ISO 639-3 language code for Western Armenian [1] were finally
> succeeded. SIL International, the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority, decided
> to create the code element [hyw] for Western Armenian. [2]
>
> We initiated this process three years ago when we started the collaboration
> with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [3] in order to foster and improve
> free content in Western Armenian. This resulted in "Western Armenian
> project" where Wikimedia Armenia through different events and activities
> started to disseminate and support the creation of Western Armenian content
> with the help of local and diasporan Western Armenian community members.
>
> From the launch of the "Western Armenian project" we were challenged with
> the problem that Western Armenian has no ISO 639-3 language code which did
> not allow the community to split Western Armenian content into a separate
> language Wikipedia. This problem made lots of  trouble for us, as hy.wiki
> often had two versions of the same page.
>
> Wikimedia Armenia with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation eventually decided to
> apply for code split. [4] This was done mainly with the help of Michael
> Everson. [5] Besides WM AM and Armenian Communities Department of Calouste
> Gulbenkian foundation there were also other parties involved, such as the
> department of Armenian Studies of the Institut National des Langues et
> Civilisations Orientales, Paris and other academic institutions.
>
> Today is a special day for Wikimedia Armenia and Western Armenian speaking
> community as our proposal was accepted. Thanks all Wikimedians who
> supported us in this work.
>
> Best,
> Davit Saroyan
> Program Manager
> Wikimedia Armenia
>
>
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
> 2.
> http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_
> Comments_2017-023.pdf
> 3. https://gulbenkian.pt/en/
> 4. http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf
> 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Duty of care

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Hi Renée,


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Handbook and 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Support_and_Safety might be a start for 
your research.


Cheers


Le 27/01/2018 à 13:22, Renée Bagslint a écrit :

Looking at a couple of situations that have arisen recently on one of the
projects, where the health and well-being of volunteers might have been
affected by their participation, I wonder where we can find a clear
statement of the Foundation's Duty of Care towards the volunteers?  I
looked on Meta, but the search appeared to return only pages relevant to
the Trustees duty towards the Foundation.  I was looking for something
about the Foundation's duty towards the community?  Can anyone help?
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[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming survey about training for Wikimedians

[Pine W]

Hello Wikimedia colleagues,

Some of you may remember the LearnWiki project [0]. Regrettably, the
project goals were not completed within the planned timeline and budget. If
you would like to read that grant's final report, you may find it here [1].

I continue to believe that there would be value in offering more online
training to Wikimedians through videos, and possibly interactive tutorials
and other resources, that could help Wikimedians with novice to
intermediate skill levels to improve their proficiency with navigating
Wikimedia online cultures, principles, referencing, VisualEditor, the 2017
New WikiText Editor (which I like to call "NEWT") [2], and other topics.

Currently, there is a variety of training throughout the Wikimedia
ecosystem. Training varies across projects (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata,
Commons), languages (e.g. English, Arabic, Japanese), settings (e.g. GLAM
workshops, university classes, online individual study), formats (e.g. in
person, remote, video, interactive tutorial, lecture), and themes (e.g.
Wiki Loves Monuments, Women in Red, WikiProject Military History).

I plan to create and distribute a survey during the next few months to ask
individual Wikimedians and Wikimedia affiliate organizations about the
training practices that you have used to train yourself or others, how
effective you think that those training practices are, and what types of
training you would like to have available in the future. This survey would
inform the development of training materials and methods.

Improving the quality and diversity of training is a long term goal of
mine. This campaign is currently not funded by the Wikimedia Foundation or
any Wikimedia affiliate, although I believe that the survey data will
provide valuable input for possible projects, and people may request
funding for some of those projects (whether or not they are collaborating
with me). I do not plan to request WMF funds for myself in the foreseeable
future, but I may request funding for other contractors or grantees for
some projects that are related to this campaign and who collaborate with
me. While I work on this initiative, I anticipate that numerous Wikimedia
affiliates and program leaders will continue to develop and refine a
variety of training materials, some of which will be funded by WMF,
affiliates, and/or other organizations. I hope to collaborate with others,
incrementally and over the course of years, to improve the quality and
diversity of training throughout the Wikimedia ecosystem.

I believe that WMF is planning to launch the 2018 Community Engagement
Insights survey in March, and to publish results in May. [3] The CEI survey
results from 2017 and 2018 are likely to influence plans for development of
training materials, although the survey that is focused on training will be
separate from the 2018 CEI survey. I plan to collaborate with WMF Community
Resources and WMF Learning and Evaluation *if* they have availability and
willingness to participate in the design and analysis of the training
survey. :)

Further updates about the training survey will be provided during the next
few months. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact me with questions
or comments through email, IRC, or on my Meta talk page, especially if you
would like to help with the design of the survey.

Regards,

Pine 

[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learnwiki
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia/Final
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2017_wikitext_editor
]3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights
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[Wikimedia-l] User Halibutt has passed

[Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska]

I am sad to inform you that today Krzysztof Machocki (user:Halibutt) has
passed away. With his passing our community loses a brilliant and
passionate Wikimedian and Wikimedia Polska loses a valued spokeperson. But
what is the most important - many of us lose a beloved, beloved friend.

Krzysztof was known for his joy and passion. For his faith in how Wikipedia
makes the world better.
We lose him but let us not lose that faith.

There is a memorial page on Polish Wikipedia. You can leave your
condolences there and we will give them to Krzysztof's family.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Halibutt/Ksi%C4%99ga


-- 
Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska


Wolny
od wirusów. www.avast.com

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[Wikimedia-l] Progress Report 2017-18

[Ananth Subray]

Dear All,

Please find here [1] a link to our draft Progress Report. This report will
be further reviewed for language, metrics, and other visualisation before
submission.  We would like to thank you for the support during the drafting
of this report.

Do let us know if there is anything else,

[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/
2016-2017_round_2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Progress_report_form


Thanks and Regards,


*ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*

Programme Associate

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia vs. NSA

[Dumisani Ndubane]

Thanks for the update

This is a good stand to take, seeing that our vision and mission demands it
of us.

*Dumisani Ndubane*
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation

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✉ | dndub...@wikimedia.org  

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*"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge."*

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Nadine Le Lirzin 
wrote:

> Thank you, Katherine. At once for such a precise update and for going
> ahead.
> Also many thanks to all who dedicate time and work to this case.
>
> Nadine Le Lirzin
> Wikimédia France
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 at 01:42, Philippe Beaudette 
> wrote:
>
> > Great update, thank you.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Katherine Maher 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I’d like to share an update and next steps in our lawsuit against the
> > U.S.
> > > National Security Agency (NSA), Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA.[1] As
> you’ll
> > > recall, in March 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation joined eight other
> > > plaintiffs in filing a suit in United States Federal District Court
> > against
> > > the NSA[2] and the Department of Justice,[3] among others. We have been
> > > represented pro bono[4] by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[5]
> > and
> > > the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.[6] The law
> > > firm Cooley LLP[7] has also been serving as pro bono co-counsel for the
> > > Foundation.
> > >
> > > Since we’re coming on the three-year anniversary, I wanted to offer a
> > > reminder of why we filed this suit. Our challenge supports the
> > foundational
> > > values of our movement: the right to freedom of expression and access
> to
> > > information. Free knowledge requires freedom of inquiry, particularly
> in
> > > the case of challenging and unpopular truths. Each day people around
> the
> > > world engage with difficult and controversial subjects on Wikipedia and
> > > other Wikimedia projects. Pervasive mass surveillance brings the threat
> > of
> > > reprisal, creates a chilling effect, and undermines the freedoms upon
> > which
> > > our projects and communities are founded. In bringing this suit, we
> > joined
> > > a tradition of knowledge stewards who have fought to preserve the
> > integrity
> > > of intellectual inquiry.
> > >
> > > Our lawsuit challenges dragnet surveillance by the NSA, specifically
> the
> > > large-scale seizing and searching of Internet communications frequently
> > > referred to as “Upstream” surveillance.[8] The U.S. government is
> tapping
> > > directly into the internet’s “backbone”[9]—the network of high-capacity
> > > cables, switches, and routers that carry domestic and international
> > > communications—and seizing and searching virtually all text-based
> > internet
> > > communications flowing into and out of the United States. It’s this
> > > backbone that connects the global Wikimedia community to our projects.
> > > These communications are being seized and searched without any
> > requirement
> > > that there be suspicion, for example, that the communications have a
> > > connection to terrorism or national security threats.
> > >
> > > Last May, we reached an important milestone: a Federal Court of
> > Appeals[10]
> > > in the United States ruled[11] that the Foundation alone had plausibly
> > > alleged “standing”[12] to proceed with our claims that Upstream mass
> > > surveillance seizes and searches of the online communications of
> > Wikimedia
> > > users, contributors and Foundation staff in violation of the U.S.
> > > Constitution and other laws. The Court of Appeals’ ruling means that we
> > are
> > > the sole remaining plaintiff among the nine original co-plaintiffs.
> There
> > > is still a long road ahead, but this intermediate victory makes this
> case
> > > one of the most important vehicles for challenging the legality of this
> > > particular NSA surveillance practice.
> > >
> > > As a result of our win in the appellate court, we are now proceeding to
> > the
> > > next stage of the case: discovery.[13] In the U.S. court system,
> parties
> > > use the discovery stage to exchange evidence and ask each other
> questions
> > > about their claims. We have requested information and documents from
> the
> > > government, and they have made similar requests from us. The entire
> > phase,
> > > which will also involve research and reports from experts, is expected
> to
> > > last the next few months.
> > >
> > > As part of our commitment to privacy, I want you to know about what
> this
> > > stage of the case means for our data retention practices. Our goal in
> > > bringing this lawsuit was to protect user information. In this case,
> like
> > > other litigation in which we engage, we may sometimes be legally
> required
> > > to preserve some information longer than the standard 90-day period in
> > our
> > 

[Wikimedia-l] New language code for Western Armenian language

[David Saroyan]

Dear all,

I'm pleased to announce that the efforts of Wikimedia Armenia to get
separate ISO 639-3 language code for Western Armenian [1] were finally
succeeded. SIL International, the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority, decided
to create the code element [hyw] for Western Armenian. [2]

We initiated this process three years ago when we started the collaboration
with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [3] in order to foster and improve
free content in Western Armenian. This resulted in "Western Armenian
project" where Wikimedia Armenia through different events and activities
started to disseminate and support the creation of Western Armenian content
with the help of local and diasporan Western Armenian community members.

From the launch of the "Western Armenian project" we were challenged with
the problem that Western Armenian has no ISO 639-3 language code which did
not allow the community to split Western Armenian content into a separate
language Wikipedia. This problem made lots of  trouble for us, as hy.wiki
often had two versions of the same page.

Wikimedia Armenia with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation eventually decided to
apply for code split. [4] This was done mainly with the help of Michael
Everson. [5] Besides WM AM and Armenian Communities Department of Calouste
Gulbenkian foundation there were also other parties involved, such as the
department of Armenian Studies of the Institut National des Langues et
Civilisations Orientales, Paris and other academic institutions.

Today is a special day for Wikimedia Armenia and Western Armenian speaking
community as our proposal was accepted. Thanks all Wikimedians who
supported us in this work.

Best,
Davit Saroyan
Program Manager
Wikimedia Armenia


1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
2.
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_Comments_2017-023.pdf
3. https://gulbenkian.pt/en/
4. http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson
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[Wikimedia-l] Books & Bytes – Issue 26, December – January 2018

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*Books & Bytes – Issue 26, December – January 2018*
Highlights:

   - #1Lib1Ref
  - User Group update
  - Global branches update
  - Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library
  staff learning Wikipedia?
  - Bytes in brief

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