[Wikimedia-l] In memory of Holger Ellgaard

[Johan Jönsson]

Holger Ellgaard – User:Holger.Ellgaard – has died.

Holger was one of the most prolific article writers on Swedish Wikipedia,
having written thousands of articles, with a couple of hundred thousand
edits on Swedish Wikipedia and another hundred thousand edits on Commons,
where he had uploaded more than fifty thousand photographs since coming to
the Wikimedia movement in the spring of 2007.

As we know, an edit count says very little in itself – myself, I have a
large number of minor fixes and few excellent articles. Holger, on the
other hand, wrote a large number of featured and good articles, the kind of
texts the community wanted to highlight as its best and put on the main
page for everyone to see.

Having spent his professional life as an architect and with a passion for
photography, he wrote about buildings and city planning, architecture and
infrastructure. His articles were long, well sourced and full of
illustrations, usually his own photos. He liked to visit a place before
writing about it, photographing it and making sure he had the pictures he
wanted.

Many of his best articles were more ambitious in scope. He wrote about
Swedish kitchen standard and the redevelopment of central Stockholm from
the 1950s to the 1970s. He wrote about any conceivable aspect of Stockholm
as a city: public toilets in Stockholm, traffic signals in Stockholm,
emergency housing in Stockholm, illuminated signs in Stockholm, railroad
tunnels in Stockholm and about so many other things.

When Wikimedia Sweden started giving out an annual award to someone who had
contributed to free knowledge, Holger was the inaugural recipient. He felt
like an obvious choice. Not only because of the amount of work he had put
into writing his articles, but also his willingness to help anyone writing
within his area of expertise.

He was a great public educator. And now he isn’t, and we’re less for his
absence.

//Johan Jönsson
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board Membership at Tor

[Dariusz Jemielniak]

Dear Esra'a,

let me be the first one to write that I think it is awesome, a great win
for Tor and for us. I hope we'll be able to work together more efficiently
toward the free, uncensored access to knowledge.

best,

Dariusz

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:30 PM Esra'a Al Shafei 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> As a current Wikimedia Foundation Board member, I wanted to reach out and
> announce that I have agreed to join the Board of the Tor Project.
>
> The Foundation Board and relevant staff members have been made aware and
> given an opportunity to raise any possible concerns, in line with our
> conflict of interest policies. Since there were no issues raised, my Board
> membership with Tor began December 15 and was made public today.
>
> Tor’s privacy technologies have been critical resources for my human
> rights advocacy work. It felt fitting to have this opportunity to support
> an organization and community that made my work and the work of many other
> activists possible, especially those who live in countries where censorship
> and surveillance are the norm.
>
> In the rare event that any Board decision from Tor or Wikimedia Foundation
> may impact either organization, I will be fully recusing myself from them.
> Like the Foundation Board, this position is voluntary and unpaid.
>
> Here is the announcement from Tor:
> https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-new-board-members/
>
> Regards,
>
> Esra’a
>
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członek korespondent Polskiej Akademii Nauk 

faculty associate Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society
, Harvard University
Ważniejsze książki: Collaborative Society
 (2020, MIT Press, z
A. Przegalińską), Thick Big Data

(2020,
Oxford University Press), Common Knowledge?
 (2014, Stanford University
Press)
W niedawnych badaniach wykryłem dezinformację nt. #AstraZeneca

, analizowałem międzynarodowe sieci medialne dot. rozmów klimatycznych
,
pokazałem, że  prawo Godwina nie działa
, że open
source umiera powolną śmiercią,
 że
najlepsze artykuły na Wikipedii tworzy wikiprojekt o cyklonach
, że
naukowczynie  raczej nie publikowały mniej w lockdownach
, że
bibliografie
na Wikipedii korespondują z rankingami czasopism
, czy
że prawnicy
z Harvardu akceptują piractwo.

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Call for Applications: The 2023 Curationist Fellows Program and Critics of Color Residency Applications are Now Open

[Ndahiro Derrick Alter]

Thanks for sharing

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 18:09, Adélaïde via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi Sadik,
>
> Thank you very much for sharing this call for applications.
> I know French speaking Wikimedians in Africa would probably want to send
> in their applications. Is this offer open to non-English speakers ? If
> so, is it possible to have the offer translated ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Best,
>
>
> ADÉLAÏDE CALAIS
> _CHARGÉE DE MISSION DIVERSITÉ ET FRANCOPHONIE_
> _+33
> 1 42 36 26 24_ [11]
> _+33 6 38 36 13 32_ [12]
>
> _-_
>
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>
> Le 2023-01-18 17:10, Sadik Shahadu a écrit :
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I
> am excited to announce that the 2023 Curationist Fellows Program and
> Critics of Color Residency Applications are live!
> >
> > As part of our
> mission to reimagine culture through a social-justice lens, Curationist
> is proud to announce two upcoming opportunities that provide direct
> support for research and writing on our platform: the 2023 Critics of
> Color Residency and the Curationist Fellowship. APPLICATIONS FOR BOTH
> PROGRAMS ARE NOW OPEN UNTIL FEBRUARY 1.
> >
> > The Curationist Fellows
> Program [1] supports community-based researchers, librarians, graduate
> students, and university educators in incorporating cultural heritage
> resources into their existing work. We especially encourage applicants
> from communities underrepresented in the arts and culture field and
> applicants whose work may lack the funding associated with large
> institutional settings.
> >
> > The Critics of Color Residency [2]
> supports writers of color interested in arts and cultural criticism.
> Participants will draw on the Curationist archive and work with
> Curationist editors and archivists to publish writing on our site. This
> residency is an exciting opportunity for early to mid-career writers to
> engage with digital collections and to have their voices expand and
> diversify cultural discourse. The fellowship is generously supported by
> Critical Minded [3].
> >
> > Residents and fellows may be based anywhere
> in the world. Each fellow or resident will be awarded a 3,000 USD
> stipend over six months, and will spend approximately 15 hours per month
> on remote research, writing, and workshops. Full application details are
> available by clicking on the links below.
> >
> > For questions about the
> Critics of Color Residency or Curationist Fellowship, please email
> curation...@mhzfoundation.org.
> >
> > Visit Curatonist.org [4] to learn
> more about our new platform and our free tool that makes millions of
> digital images of artworks and artifacts from around the world easy to
> access.
> >
> > SADIK SHAHADU
> >
> > Social Media Manager | MHz Foundation
>
> >
> > Email: sa...@mhzfoundation.org
> >
> > Phone: +233244666136
> >
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Endowment, again

[effe iets anders]

Hi Lane,

maybe I'm just reading this differently, but doesn't "we are in the
process" typically mean "no, not yet. But we are going towards that new
situation"? If you don't feel this answers your question, it might be
beneficial to spell out the question a bit more explicitly. Re-reading the
statement of Andreas, I mostly see a statement that he is confused and his
question is "could someone please clarify this please". In Julia's
response, I read a good faith effort (but apparently insufficient for you)
to achieve just that: clarification.

Best,
Lodewijk

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 2:40 AM Lane Chance  wrote:

> Fascinating, the WMF are saying they have answered the question on
> Meta, yet a simple fact check, by reading the page, shows they have
> not answered the obvious simple yes/no needed.
>
> A vague reply of "We are in the process" must set off red flags for
> any logical reader. The huge amount of money under scrutiny is either
> controlled by Tides or it isn't. The fact that the WMF has evaded the
> yes/no question several times indicates there is a problem here that
> they are not prepared to confirm in public, such as using interim
> "holders" or incurring significant fees. Though the fast reader might
> think the answer was "yes", it does not actually say "yes", nor does
> it give any fixed dates that anyone could be held accountable to, like
> for example "the funds are controlled by Tides until the end of
> February 2023" which would be specific, accountable and verifiable.
>
> Happy to be confirmed wrong, with *facts* rather than more opinions
> and defensive non-answers.
>
> For some unknown reason, the WMF official reply was not included in
> the email, here it is for anyone to fact check where it can't be
> edited later on a wiki:
> "This question was also raised in a thread on Wikimedia-l. SJ’s
> message there summarized the situation very well. The Wikimedia
> Endowment has received its 501(c)(3) status from the US Internal
> Revenue Service. We are in the process of setting up its financial
> systems and transitioning out of Tides. This is in line with the
> direction from the 2021 resolution from Wikimedia Foundation Board of
> Trustees. We plan further updates in the next few months.The statement
> made by the recent broadcast in Italy was unfortunately an incorrect
> representation of the answers we sent them; a further clarification
> was made on establishment of the Endowment in January also linked from
> the show’s page. Considered as a whole, there are lots of inaccuracies
> in the broadcast despite engagement with the show by the Foundation
> and Wikimedia Italia over a period of six months to ensure the
> movement and Wikipedia’s editing model were represented correctly.Best
> regards JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:11, 24 January 2023 (UTC)"
>
> Thanks,
> Lane (for the avoidance of doubt, I have no connection to Wikipedia
> Signpost)
>
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 07:13, Julia Brungs  wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We’ve answered this question on the Endowment’s meta talk page. [1]
> > Regards,
> > Julia
> >
> > [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment#Is_the_money_still_with_Tides
> ?
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 3:32 AM Andreas Kolbe 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Sam,
> >>
> >> Money cannot be in two places at the same time. Either it has been
> moved, or it has not been moved.
> >>
> >> The Rai journalists specifically asked "Why the Wikimedia Foundation
> didn't move it to a separate 501e3 entity?"
> >>
> >> Here is the complete question again:
> >>
> >> Q: The Wikimedia Endowment is today still entrusted to the Tides
> Foundation. According to SignPost (
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion)
> on March 2017 Lisa Seitz-Gruwell said: “The WMF board has already given us
> the direction to move it into a separate 501c3 once the endowment reaches
> $33 million. [...] WMF's Executive Director is supportive of moving it to a
> new 501c3 once it reaches $33 million." The Endowment has reached $33
> million and passed them reaching $100 million today. Why the Wikimedia
> Foundation didn’t move it to a separate 501e3 entity? Being entrusted into
> the Tides Foundation is not available to the public any financial report
> about Wikipedia Endowment. Don't you think there is a lack of information
> and transparency about a fund that is created through worldwide donations?
> >>
> >> If the picture you paint in your post describes the actual state of
> affairs – i.e., the 501c3 has been set up, but it takes time to get the org
> ready, so for now the money is still with Tides – then the answer should, I
> feel, have looked something like this:
> >>
> >> A: We were planning to move the Endowment to a separate 501c3 entity
> when it reached $33 million, but then our board decided to postpone that
> move. We have now revived the plan to move the funds. We have established a
> new organisation for that purpose, which received its 501c3 

[Wikimedia-l] Board Membership at Tor

[Esra'a Al Shafei]

Dear all,

As a current Wikimedia Foundation Board member, I wanted to reach out and
announce that I have agreed to join the Board of the Tor Project.

The Foundation Board and relevant staff members have been made aware and
given an opportunity to raise any possible concerns, in line with our
conflict of interest policies. Since there were no issues raised, my Board
membership with Tor began December 15 and was made public today.

Tor’s privacy technologies have been critical resources for my human rights
advocacy work. It felt fitting to have this opportunity to support an
organization and community that made my work and the work of many other
activists possible, especially those who live in countries where censorship
and surveillance are the norm.

In the rare event that any Board decision from Tor or Wikimedia Foundation
may impact either organization, I will be fully recusing myself from them.
Like the Foundation Board, this position is voluntary and unpaid.

Here is the announcement from Tor:
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-new-board-members/

Regards,

Esra’a

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Call for Applications: The 2023 Curationist Fellows Program and Critics of Color Residency Applications are Now Open

[Adélaïde via Wikimedia-l]

Hi Sadik,

Thank you very much for sharing this call for applications.
I know French speaking Wikimedians in Africa would probably want to send
in their applications. Is this offer open to non-English speakers ? If
so, is it possible to have the offer translated ? 

Many thanks, 

Best,


ADÉLAÏDE CALAIS 
_CHARGÉE DE MISSION DIVERSITÉ ET FRANCOPHONIE_ 
_+33
1 42 36 26 24_ [11] 
_+33 6 38 36 13 32_ [12]

_-_

WIKIMEDIA FRANCE
Association pour le libre partage de la
connaissance
_WWW.WIKIMEDIA.FR [13]_ 
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[14] 

Le 2023-01-18 17:10, Sadik Shahadu a écrit :

> Dear all, 
> 
> I
am excited to announce that the 2023 Curationist Fellows Program and
Critics of Color Residency Applications are live! 
> 
> As part of our
mission to reimagine culture through a social-justice lens, Curationist
is proud to announce two upcoming opportunities that provide direct
support for research and writing on our platform: the 2023 Critics of
Color Residency and the Curationist Fellowship. APPLICATIONS FOR BOTH
PROGRAMS ARE NOW OPEN UNTIL FEBRUARY 1.  
> 
> The Curationist Fellows
Program [1] supports community-based researchers, librarians, graduate
students, and university educators in incorporating cultural heritage
resources into their existing work. We especially encourage applicants
from communities underrepresented in the arts and culture field and
applicants whose work may lack the funding associated with large
institutional settings. 
> 
> The Critics of Color Residency [2]
supports writers of color interested in arts and cultural criticism.
Participants will draw on the Curationist archive and work with
Curationist editors and archivists to publish writing on our site. This
residency is an exciting opportunity for early to mid-career writers to
engage with digital collections and to have their voices expand and
diversify cultural discourse. The fellowship is generously supported by
Critical Minded [3].  
> 
> Residents and fellows may be based anywhere
in the world. Each fellow or resident will be awarded a 3,000 USD
stipend over six months, and will spend approximately 15 hours per month
on remote research, writing, and workshops. Full application details are
available by clicking on the links below. 
> 
> For questions about the
Critics of Color Residency or Curationist Fellowship, please email
curation...@mhzfoundation.org.
> 
> Visit Curatonist.org [4] to learn
more about our new platform and our free tool that makes millions of
digital images of artworks and artifacts from around the world easy to
access. 
> 
> SADIK SHAHADU 
> 
> Social Media Manager | MHz Foundation

> 
> Email: sa...@mhzfoundation.org 
> 
> Phone: +233244666136 
> 
>
Website: www.curationist.org [5] 
> 
> Social: Instagram [6] | Twitter
[7] | Facebook [8]| LinkedIn [9] 
> 
> (MHz Curationist logo) MHz
Curationist is a project of the MHz Foundation [10]. 
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Endowment, again

[Lane Chance]

Fascinating, the WMF are saying they have answered the question on
Meta, yet a simple fact check, by reading the page, shows they have
not answered the obvious simple yes/no needed.

A vague reply of "We are in the process" must set off red flags for
any logical reader. The huge amount of money under scrutiny is either
controlled by Tides or it isn't. The fact that the WMF has evaded the
yes/no question several times indicates there is a problem here that
they are not prepared to confirm in public, such as using interim
"holders" or incurring significant fees. Though the fast reader might
think the answer was "yes", it does not actually say "yes", nor does
it give any fixed dates that anyone could be held accountable to, like
for example "the funds are controlled by Tides until the end of
February 2023" which would be specific, accountable and verifiable.

Happy to be confirmed wrong, with *facts* rather than more opinions
and defensive non-answers.

For some unknown reason, the WMF official reply was not included in
the email, here it is for anyone to fact check where it can't be
edited later on a wiki:
"This question was also raised in a thread on Wikimedia-l. SJ’s
message there summarized the situation very well. The Wikimedia
Endowment has received its 501(c)(3) status from the US Internal
Revenue Service. We are in the process of setting up its financial
systems and transitioning out of Tides. This is in line with the
direction from the 2021 resolution from Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees. We plan further updates in the next few months.The statement
made by the recent broadcast in Italy was unfortunately an incorrect
representation of the answers we sent them; a further clarification
was made on establishment of the Endowment in January also linked from
the show’s page. Considered as a whole, there are lots of inaccuracies
in the broadcast despite engagement with the show by the Foundation
and Wikimedia Italia over a period of six months to ensure the
movement and Wikipedia’s editing model were represented correctly.Best
regards JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:11, 24 January 2023 (UTC)"

Thanks,
Lane (for the avoidance of doubt, I have no connection to Wikipedia Signpost)

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 07:13, Julia Brungs  wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We’ve answered this question on the Endowment’s meta talk page. [1]
> Regards,
> Julia
>
> [1] 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment#Is_the_money_still_with_Tides?
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 3:32 AM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>>
>> Dear Sam,
>>
>> Money cannot be in two places at the same time. Either it has been moved, or 
>> it has not been moved.
>>
>> The Rai journalists specifically asked "Why the Wikimedia Foundation didn't 
>> move it to a separate 501e3 entity?"
>>
>> Here is the complete question again:
>>
>> Q: The Wikimedia Endowment is today still entrusted to the Tides Foundation. 
>> According to SignPost 
>> (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion)
>>  on March 2017 Lisa Seitz-Gruwell said: “The WMF board has already given us 
>> the direction to move it into a separate 501c3 once the endowment reaches 
>> $33 million. [...] WMF's Executive Director is supportive of moving it to a 
>> new 501c3 once it reaches $33 million." The Endowment has reached $33 
>> million and passed them reaching $100 million today. Why the Wikimedia 
>> Foundation didn’t move it to a separate 501e3 entity? Being entrusted into 
>> the Tides Foundation is not available to the public any financial report 
>> about Wikipedia Endowment. Don't you think there is a lack of information 
>> and transparency about a fund that is created through worldwide donations?
>>
>> If the picture you paint in your post describes the actual state of affairs 
>> – i.e., the 501c3 has been set up, but it takes time to get the org ready, 
>> so for now the money is still with Tides – then the answer should, I feel, 
>> have looked something like this:
>>
>> A: We were planning to move the Endowment to a separate 501c3 entity when it 
>> reached $33 million, but then our board decided to postpone that move. We 
>> have now revived the plan to move the funds. We have established a new 
>> organisation for that purpose, which received its 501c3 status in 2022. We 
>> are currently getting that organisation ready to manage the Endowment and 
>> expect to move the funds from Tides to the new org in (month/year).
>>
>> Instead, Nadee said Rai had it wrong, and made it sound like the money had 
>> already been moved. And that is what the programme communicated to the 
>> Italian audience – that the WMF said the Endowment had been transferred to a 
>> dedicated new entity a few months ago in 2022.
>>
>> This is contradicted today both by the Endowment website and the Endowment 
>> page on Meta-Wiki, which says that the Endowment is "currently managed by 
>> the Tides Foundation as a Collective Action Fund".
>>
>> There are really two issues here: