Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?
I just tested and it doesn't for me. I can send you the audio if you are interested. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was speaking with Barbara Page last night (Barbara's highlighting of this > issue in a Wikipediocracy blog post > http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ prompted Andreas to open this > discussion) last night and she told me when she asks Alexa about ovarian > cancer these days, Alexa begins with "According to Wikipedia..." Can anyone > else with Alexa confirm this? > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 3:55 am, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo > > licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to > > report back to us. > > > > Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear > anything > > further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she will > > be off on a much-needed holiday after that. > > > > Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they > > contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them, the > > call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in > > September. > > > > Best, > > Andreas > > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avr...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation. > > > > > > We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions > raised > > on > > > this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an > > > update. > > > > > > All the best, > > > Adele > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe: > > > > > > > > > > Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ... > > > > > > > > > > I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article > version > > > > that > > > > > matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume > > that > > > > > this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had > gone > > > by > > > > > the time the video was uploaded to YouTube. > > > > > > > > The current (full) answer is > > > > > > > > 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional > former > > > > CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified > > > > information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.' > > > > > > > > Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for > > > > example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe > that > > > > Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and > so > > > on. > > > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ > mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Adele Vrana* > > > *Strategic Partnerships - Global Reach* > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 > > > avr...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > > the > > > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. > > > <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* > > > ___ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?
Hello, I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation. We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised on this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an update. All the best, Adele On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe: > > > > Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ... > > > > I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version > that > > matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume that > > this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone by > > the time the video was uploaded to YouTube. > > The current (full) answer is > > 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former > CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified > information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.' > > Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for > example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that > Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so on. > > Simon > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Adele Vrana* *Strategic Partnerships - Global Reach* Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 avr...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [OpenAccess] [wikicite-discuss] Wikimedia and other 60+ organizations launch the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
Congratulations Dario and everyone from Research who made this possible. Remarkable effort! On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 11:41 PM, NC Hasive <n...@nhasive.com> wrote: > Great work. > > -Hasive > > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > wrote: > > > On 6 April 2017 at 19:11, Dario Taraborelli <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning > > called: > > > Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). > > > > Wikipedia article here: > > > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_for_Open_Citations > > > > improvements/ additions, and translations, welcome! > > > > -- > > Andy Mabbett > > @pigsonthewing > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > ___ > > OpenAccess mailing list > > openacc...@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess > > > > > > -- > *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* > User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | > GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 > > Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > user:Hasive> > Board Member | Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd/> > fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive > <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | www.nhasive.com > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Adele Vrana* *Strategic Partnerships - Global Reach* Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 avr...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images
Huge congratulations to the team! I can't wait to see the data and blogpost on this. A cheaper Wikipedia mobile will go a long way to help us address the data affordability barrier, attract new Wikipedia Zero partners and bring in new readers. On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting to see the drop in bytes sent to the Japan article and this > makes me think we should "fold up" article sections on desktop too for very > long articles, such as the Japan article. The benefits for mobile are > obvious, but this may be beneficial for slow desktop connections as well. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM > Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images > To: mobile-l <mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers < > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has > been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if you > do not see an image you will not download it. We have taken care to ensure > users without JavaScript can still view images and that most users will > barely notice the difference. > > We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to > write a blog post to reporting the results. > > In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes per > page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users > dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB. > > This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this to > be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a nutshell > Wikipedia mobile is cheaper. > > As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please > report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already > found a few thanks to our community of editors). > > ~Jon > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/ > Performance/Lazy_loading_images > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_ > of_images_on_Japanese_Wikipedia > [3] https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/ > > > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Adele Vrana* *Strategic Partnerships* Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 avr...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our problem with India
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero mass effect on Wikimedia projects
per editing coming from IP > addresses > > located in Angola. Some users believe that this may be related with > > Wikipedia Zero and a partnership between WMF and a cellphone company [1] > > that allows reading and editing at free cost. > > > > One of the first reactions to that is a large range block that was just > set > > on Commons in order to prevent these edits [2], as they are being done > in a > > way that volunteers can't handle. > > > > That seems to be some kind of "second wave" as the first that hit Commons > > [3] had been already reported months ago [4] and seemed to be controled > or > > just paused for a while. On Portuguese Wikipedia, one thing that seemss > to > > be clear is that edits are done in good faith. However, they end by being > > undone as they are incorrect for some reason, whether being pages of > files > > about themselves or just test edits. One of the users identified actually > > confirm [5] that he is editing through Wikipedia Zero. > > > > Concerning that more partnerships may occur in future, I think it is time > > for us to start talking about ways of dealing with that, other than > > blocking. Sadly, I don't have an answer to that problem, but I tend to > > believe that some way of mass reaching these potential users should be > made > > out. > > > > The current process is that editors will be the ones to notice that (as I > > am not aware of any kind of follow up by WMF on that) and they will try > to > > solve their way, which may cause too many collateral damage. > > > > I wonder if there is any kind of way to diminish the problem, by using > any > > off-wiki strategy. > > > > Kind regards. > > > > Teles > > > > [1] - > > > > > http://www.telecompaper.com/news/movicel-offers-free-access-to-wikipedia--1116012 > > [2] - > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Steinsplitter=190598884#Unblock > > [3] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles/Angola_Facebook_Case > > [4] - > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum=12835750#Wikipedia_Zero_being_used_to_violate_copyright > > [5] - > > > > > https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Usu%C3%A1rio_Discuss%C3%A3o:Darwinius=prev=45095087 > > > > > > *Lucas Teles* > > > > *+55 (71) 98290 7553Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * > > *at Portuguese Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.*- wikipedista.com > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > GN. > President Wikimedia Australia > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Adele Vrana* *Strategic Partnerships* Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 avr...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Improving transparency and communication
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Grantmaking Quarterly Review notes posted on Meta
Hi all, The minutes and slides from the Quarterly Review meeting of the Grantmaking team have now been posted on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Grantmaking,_2013-05-15 Cheers, Adele -- *Adele Vrana* Senior Project Assistant to the Grantmaking Programs Department Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 avr...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate.https://donate.wikimedia.org/ * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
