[Wikimedia-l] Support needed: Our Congress is trying to butcher the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
Hello Wikimedia friends,
the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Civil_Rights_Framework_for_the_Internet>
is being threatened by our Congress. You can see details and supporting
organizations and collectives here in this letter
<https://gist.github.com/everton137/c2acdf0025b68013ea2d>.
I'd like to ask support from other Wikimedia communities (chapters, local
groups, Wikipedia groups by language etc.) and Wikimedia Foundation. I've
proposed a blackout at the Portuguese Wikipedia
<https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Projetos_de_Lei_que_amea%C3%A7am_liberdade_de_express%C3%A3o_e_direito_%C3%A0_privacidade_no_Brasil:_vale_um_apag%C3%A3o_na_Wikip%C3%A9dia_%2829set2015%29>,
and it seems to be supported by the majority of collaborators.
That said, somethings I'd like to kindly ask:
1. a person from Wikimedia Foundation to support us technically with the
blackout;
2. other groups support us doing the same on their Wikipedias, as it was
done by several Wikipedias when freedom of speech was threatened in the USA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA>;
3. provide us the source code of the blackout done at the English
Wikipedia for we adapt it to Portuguese.
Other advices and support I didn't list here are welcome. Thanks,
Tom
--
Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Open Knowledge Brasil
Watch out! The Brazilian Congress is trying to butcher the Brazilian Civil
Rights Framework for the Internet!
(Original version here
<https://gist.github.com/everton137/95bac99f2015ab9585b5>)
Civil society organizations part of the coalition pro Marco Civil
('Articulação Marco Civil Já!') repudiate parliamentary initiatives that
threaten Internet users privacy and freedom of expression.
Currently there are three different Bills under way in the House of
Representatives that threaten one of the most important democratic gains of
the last period - the approval of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for
the Internet
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Civil_Rights_Framework_for_the_Internet>
('Marco Civil da Internet'), Law 12.965/2014. Marco Civil ensures
fundamental rights to Internet users, such as privacy and freedom of
expression and is in line with internationally accepted orientations and
principles for Internet governance.
Motivated by parliamentarians self-interest to restrain criticism from
citizens and social movements backed by the right to freedom of expression
in Internet, and supported by private and economic interests, these Bills
were introduced in the House aimed to change Marco Civil.
PL 215/2015 - a bill presented by Brazilian representative Hildo Rocha
(PMDB), and its attachments - PL 1547/2015 authored by Expedito Netto, and
PL 1589/2015 by Soraya Santos - seeks to include harsher punishments into
articles 48 and 141 of Brazil's Criminal Code to inhibit social network
users crimes. Furthermore, the bill changes provisions of MCI, modifying
articles 10, 13, 15, 19 and adding article 21-A. These changes grant public
authorities access to data from Internet users with no need of a court
order, and mandatory removal of published online content after a simple
allegation of crime against honor, which also impose individual and
economic restriction penalties to internet providers deeply compromising
the principles of non-accountability on the internet. User's data that
authorities will be able to obtain without a warrant include all online
communication - content from e-mails, online chat and conversations through
messenger apps such as Skype and Whatsapp.
In the seventh and last version of the substutive, the proposal also
provides the extension of registrations data to be collected by Internet
Providers, imposing the obligation to retain data such as full address,
phone and social security number, wich can be passed on, without judicial
order, to authorities that have the legal authority to make such a request.
The Bill 215/2015 puts at risk the necessary balance between protecting the
right to privacy and the criminal prosecution as well as democracy itself
by allowing such abuses.
Such proposals have already been rejected in the course of MCI.
Incidentally, it is worth noting that the devices now present in the MCI
were the result of a broad social debate and an intense political
negotiation, which makes this one of the most democratic laws already voted
in the recent history of Brazil’s National Congress.
We believe that any change in MCI should be preceded by a qualified
discussion, supported by technical considerations, political and social. It
is needed, mostly, intense democratic participation equivalent to the
process from which it originated, with a public consultation process, so
that society interests can be represented regarding personal data
protection and freedom of expression on the internet.
We know that a very significant wing of the PMDB fron
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Translations of the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
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I believe some local Wikimedia leaderships. --- Kofi Annan Fellowship support is currently open to eligible applications. This Fellowship provides the opportunity for talented and motivated students from developing countries, who do not belong to a privileged class and lack sufficient financial means, to study management at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin and graduate with a prestigious MBA or MSc from the most international business school in Germany. ESMT’s one-year Full-Time MBA is a management acceleration programme aimed at early to mid-career professionals with at least three years of professional experience. *WORTH* - €58,000 and covers full tuition fees and course materials in addition to a living stipend of €1,000 per month for the duration of the MBA program. - The fellowship also covers one round-trip plane ticket to Berlin from the Fellow’s home - Fellowships can be awarded only after a candidate has been admitted to the ESMT MBA program *ELIGIBILITY* - MBA applicants should have a bachelor’s degree of any kind, a minimum of three years of professional experience, GMAT, and proficient English skills. - All applicants should have a willingness to contribute to building the economy and society of their home country with entrepreneurial impetus. - Applicants must be residents of one of the UN-listed LDCs, LLDCs, or of Palestine. Other countries will be considered by the Kofi Annan Business Schools Foundation upon request. DEADLINE: September 30, 2015 To apply and for more information visit here https://www.esmt.org/degree-programs/esmt-full-time-mba Source: http://youthhubafrica.org/apply-2015-kofi-annan-fellowship-for-full-time-mba-for-developing-countries/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] A book on open business models by Creative Commons
Dear all, Creative Commons has started an interesting project proposal at Kickstarter, Made with Creative Commons: A book on open business models https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-commons-a-book-on-open-business. The book will be under a license compatible with the Open Definition, CC-by-SA. *Project description* With your help, we are going to identify and select a diverse group of two dozen businesses, creators, and organizations from around the world succeeding with business models made with Creative Commons. Then we're going to dig deep into how they work to show how using Creative Commons can produce economic and social value. Our goal is not to identify a formula for business models that utilize CC, but instead to gather fresh ideas and dynamic examples that will help spark new, innovative models that build on what is already working. We want to spread this knowledge far and wide to inspire others to use what works for them. At the end of the process, we'll publish an ebook that puts together everything we learn and create an interactive online tool to help others build their own CC-made business models. *Goal* 50,000 USD *Days left from today*16 Please, share https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-commons-a-book-on-open-business/description . Tom Open Knowledge Brazil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Renewal of Recognition to Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil
Parabéns! 2015-02-18 21:00 GMT-02:00 Rodrigo Padula rodrigopad...@gmail.com: Hello Carlos, Can you list here the links of the activities report that AffCom checked to confirm the level of actitivity of this user group? Best regards Rodrigo Padula Em 18/02/2015 14:24, Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve escreveu: Dear all, The Affiliations Committee has recently resolved [1] to renew the recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil as a Wikimedia User Group for another year. /Parabéns /to our fellow wikimedians in Brazil and looking forward to see more activities and events from you guys! Tudo de bom! :-) Regards, Carlos 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ Resolutions/Renewals/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Brasil_-_February_2015 -- *Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain. Carlos M. Colina Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve http://wikimedia.org.ve Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee Phone: +972-52-4869915 Twitter: @maor_x ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Seeking new Executive Director at Open Knowledge. Closing date for applications: December 8, 2014.
There might be people at Wikimedia network interested in this job position. :) Please, share. -- Forwarded message -- From: Beatrice Martini beatrice.mart...@okfn.org Date: 2014-11-11 12:21 GMT+00:00 Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Seeking new Executive Director at Open Knowledge. Closing date for applications: December 8, 2014. To: Dear Open Knowledge Community, Today we are delighted to put out our formal announcement for a new *Executive Director*! Read all about it here http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/seeking-new-executive-director-at-open-knowledge/ . The *closing date for applications is 9am (GMT) on Monday, 8th December 2014*. Please do share this with your networks and especially anyone in particular you think would be interested. Thank you! Best, Beatrice -- Beatrice Martini Events Manager | skype: beatricemartini | @beatricemartini https://twitter.com/beatricemartini Open Knowledge http://okfn.org/ See how data can change the world http://okfn.org/ | @okfn http://twitter.com/OKFN | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork | Blog http://blog.okfn.org/ ___ okfn-local-coord mailing list okfn-local-co...@lists.okfn.org https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-local-coord Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-local-coord -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
Hi Rachel, I'd like to suggest someone in change of WMF communication to write a blog post about this great initiative from Norwegian volunteers. Talk to those taking the lead. :) Such initiative should be highlighted very much, mainly after to see those great Nobel Prizes (different from some years ago). Hopefully I'll try to find some time next October 12, Children's Day in Brazil, to contribute with Malala's article in the Portuguese Wikipedia. I'm trying to spread the word among Open Knowledge Brasil community because we were thinking to do some thing for children and teachers aligned with our mission. Cheers, Tom 2014-10-10 14:46 GMT-03:00 Rachel diCerbo rdic...@wikimedia.org: Hi Jon, thank you so much for your efforts in having Malala and Kailash Satyarthi's pages updated. I was over the moon to see the announcements this morning and really proud of the Norwegian Wikipedia community for updating the pages today! I for one would love to hear about everyone's experience being there. (I'd also love to hear anyone's experiences about edit conflicts while updating the pages). I'm not sure when you were notified of the invitation, but do know that the Foundation wants to find ways of supporting community activities like this, so if there are any ideas on how to do that please say so. Cheers, Rachel ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
Hi Jon, that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil. I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has made a cool short interview with some Nobel prize (I think chemestry) and it was really good. This can be even used to outreach at universities to bring more people to catalyse efforts to involve more schools on Wikimedia projects. If you can do it, please, let us know. Cheers, Tom 2014-10-08 18:07 GMT-03:00 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Hi, all! The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating relevant articles as fast as we can. For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and coordinating. We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the account @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge. The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is *08:30 UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help spread this invitation to your community. -- mvh Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Call for candidates 2015 [UPDATE]
2014-09-04 17:07 GMT-03:00 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Another option would be an open process on-wiki, along the same lines as the FDC board-selected seat nominations. Is there a need to keep applications confidential here? That is a good idea. But that will not happen any time soon or ever. Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Understading power in the Wikimedia context
Hi all, I just saw this nice video on Why ordinary people need to understand power http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_liu_why_ordinary_people_need_to_understand_power#_=_, by Eric Liu, from Citizen University http://www.citizenuniversity.us/. Although my personal interest goes beyond the wiki-world scope, I'd like to recommend this video for it covers some important subjects that might be related to some tensions we see so often in the Wikimedia movement (WMF vs. volunteers, Chapters vs. WMF, online vs offline volunteers, lack of leadership at some crucial moments and places, tirany of the structurelessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness etc.). Thoughts welcome. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selfie of the Ape - The Copyright Wars
Este vídeo apresenta conteúdo de FOX, Budiey Dot Com Media e TV Bandeirantes (Brazil). Um desses parceiros (ou mais) bloqueou o conteúdo com base nos direitos autorais. Which mean this movie cannot be watched in Brazil due to copyright reasons. Funny enough I was going to send a message to wikimedian friends in Wikimania now to cheer this pretty monkey who is raising a lot of discussion about the old copyright world thanks to Wikimedia. I'll do a t-shirt. 2014-08-07 22:48 GMT-03:00 Jens Best jens.b...@wikimedia.de: Selfie of the Ape - The Copyright Wars - http://youtu.be/E8y1bhEj7j8 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] $20 donation to WMF for vandalism edit from US House of Representatives
The time a staff or contractor will need to discover his donation or if he has donated is more expensive than 20 USD. Ask him better donations, revert the vandalism and don't give the money back, using it for some useful thing, like improving anti-vandalism tools. 2014-08-01 16:10 GMT-03:00 Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: He may have donated under a pseudonym, or by cheque, or to a chapter, or through a friend. Very tricky to track down. Or...the US NSA hacked into the Foundation's donor database and removed it to contribute to the conspiracy. Jeez guys - stop beating the horse. It's never was alive to begin with. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] $20 donation to WMF for vandalism edit from US House of Representatives
2014-08-01 16:30 GMT-03:00 Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com: Rjd0060, I'm not sure here, but are you saying that the guy didn't actually donate the $20? If so, he publicly said he did, so it's best not to say such things which could be misconstrued as you saying the guy lied. Perhaps contact with him via Twitter might get an answer as to how he actually donated. No. Richard said it was NSA fault, the US NSA hacked into the Foundation's donor database and removed it. I tend to believe on this as well. Instead of improve anti-vandalism tools as suggested, we also could use the money for improve WMF servers security. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Bad usage of money in Brazil
Hi, I have no idea about the prizes for other places to compare, but I must say 10k reais (~5k USD) is a small amount of money for the value generate by this type of competition, in my opinion. At the moment I am running through the organization I coordinate a challenge which will give prizes of this order, although we won't give it in cash, but a trip to Open Knowledge Festival http://2014.okfestival.org/ next July, books and games, all catalysing the creative use of technology and free software. And this is from a very tiny organization 6 month old. The results from this competition led by the education program coordinator in Brazil seems good so far. I think one thing that could be improved was to consult the community in a more open way to avoid the actual wikidramas and I tend not to like prizes in cash, but simbolic one, like a trip to Wikimania would make much more sense for me or some prize related to photograph. I don't criticize the organizers, they are newbies in the Wikimedia movement and let's assume good faith, but I think it's a good opportunity to discuss the issue globally, although the way the topic was raised. Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Wikimedia Hackathon(s) 2014-2015
I am glad to hear this time we will have something in Europe. :) 2014-05-30 18:58 GMT-03:00 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: (CCing wikimedia-l as well, please send any replies to wikitech-l only) The Wikimedia technical community wants to have another hackathon next year in Europe. Who will organize it? Interested parties, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons We would like to confirm a host by Wikimania, latest. The same call goes for India and other locations with a good concentration of Wikimedia contributors and software developers. Come on, step in. We want to increase our geographical diversity of technical contributors. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.
Just a personal testimonial also to emphasize Marc's point and not necessarily when I did a work for WMF as a contractor, my previous girlfriend got interesting in Wikimedia projects after she saw somethings I worked on my spare time as a volunteer. She even began to write at Wikimedia Brasil mailing list and outreach Wikimedia projects. ;) In fact, she still does sometimes some outreach and have even participate of a Wikimedia meeting recently. (Well, better not say her opinion on Wikidramas, totally aligned with mine : ) Tom 2014-05-28 11:04 GMT-03:00 Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org: On 05/28/2014 08:59 AM, Fæ wrote: A curiosity that only manifested itself shortly after the public announcement of your employment by the Foundation board. In all fairness, Fæ, if my spouse had been hired as the leader of a very visible and significant business or nonprofit, I too would find myself interested in what it is, what its values are, and how it goes about things even if I had been previously unaware or uninterested in it. So that Wil's interest manifested around the time Lila was announced as the next ED seems to me to be perfectly natural, even if I have expressed serious concerns about *how* that interest was expressed. -- Marc -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.
Hi Will, we generally can find critics mainly from those who cannot understand or do not have patience when newbies make mistakes. Obviously I also have this problem sometimes (for this some ironic comments when I suggested in a recent topic suggesting we should criticize more kindlyhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-May/071742.html), for this I believe it'll take sometime for we, as a group or even Wikimedia Foundation as an organization, to realise the importance of making mistakes http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/howmista.htm and give more importance on our learnings. My general feeling is that we lack the necessary patience and the limitation of online communication tends to raise unnecessary issues (sometimes called wikidramas), but I have no idea how this cultural change can be achieved in the Wikimedia community. Maybe it will come with nonviolent communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication or when we learn to ignore the violence and deal with it with wisdom. Leadership in this (crazy, in the good sense :) horizontal community can also be a factor to improve the discussions environment, be it on mailing lists, forums or the wiki. The TeaHouse is a great example. The ideia of Wikipedia ambassadors to work on educational environments, although not sustainable in the mid term, is another cool idea. Those great videos made by Victor idem. More ideias will come, I believe. :) Tom 2014-05-28 17:18 GMT-03:00 Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com: Well, we were discussing IRC and my experience there in this thread, and many people were asking me to wait. I find this interesting, because some on Wikipediocracy also asked me to wait, with the significant exception that this was to wait until I so something, then come back. In this case, it was wait until you've read these articles and seen this stuff on-wiki, then come back. I agreed. They then checked in with me regularly (I think most of them thought I was going to bail), and once I had read the material I had agreed to read, we resumed the discussion. It's all here: It's all here on this thread: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14t=4531 But I think I've figured out a way for me to bring up topics without worrying about my level of experience with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. I'll start a new thread with my concerns and what I've come up with. ,Wil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Apply now to participate in the Institute for Open Leadership
Earlier this week, we kicked offhttp://openpolicynetwork.org/launch-of-the-open-policy-network/the Open Policy Network http://openpolicynetwork.org/. We announced that the first project within the Network is the Institute for Open Leadershiphttp://openpolicynetwork.org/iol/. The Institute for Open Leadership is a training program to develop new leaders in education, science, public policy, and other fields on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies, and practices. The Institute is looking for passionate public- and private-sector professionals interested in learning more about openness and wish to develop and implement an open policy in their field. Interested applicants should review the application informationhttp://openpolicynetwork.org/iol/#applyand submit an application by *June 30, 2014*. We plan to invite about 15 fellows to participate in the first round of the Institute for Open Leadership. The in-person portion of the Institute will be held in the San Francisco bay area in January 2015 (TBD: either January 12-16 or January 19-23). Applications are open to individuals anywhere in the world. More: http://openpolicynetwork.org/apply-now-to-participate-in-the-institute-for-open-leadership/ -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to Criticize with Kindness
That seems a really cool presentation Romaine! Thanks for sharing in this thread. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend Wikimedia this year, but I hope to see the video from this presentation and the discussions about it later! :) Hugs, Tom 2014-05-16 14:13 GMT-03:00 Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com: Hello all, I had a discussion with Fabrice about how a culture of Kindness and Fabrice also made a submission for Wikimania about it: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A_Culture_of_Kindness In the past years I notice very much how easy discussions can go in the wrong direction as all the facial expressions and intonation are lost when users write a message on a talk page. Many many times this goes wrong, and users have a different interpretation of what someone else said what causes a fight on the wiki. If users are smart they find out that in fact the difference between them is very small with (usually) only a very slight difference in focus, but in general they agree with each other, but they don't realize that on the moment of the discussion. (If users with good will aren't that smart to discover that, such can grow out to a fighting situation for many years.) If I estimate I would say at least 50% of all troubled discussions are causes by miscommunication as the result of words being read differently as result of missing facial expressions and intonation what most people are used to have in the communication with people around them. If certain users are deaf, autistic or dyslectic, or have such background, this is even worsened. For some years I say that if I can follow a training to improve textual communication to better understand how things are perceived, I really like to follow such training. As I don't know of any, I started to figure out and collect what communication mistakes are made what cause troubles between users with the intention of creating a guide for users, to let them understand why some communication gives worse results. Romaine -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] How to Criticize with Kindness
Hi, I remember once I shared here some thoughts from Dennett on the importance of making mistakeshttp://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/howmista.htm. Now I saw this article about his new book, *Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking*http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393082067/braipick-20, and I would like to share here also: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/ How to compose a successful critical commentary: 1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way. 2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement). 3. You should mention anything you have learned from your target. 4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism. If someone here read it, please, share your impressions. I'm tempted to do it. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel been accepted to the Google Grants program
Congratulations! Best wishes, Tom -- We are a finalist of the Google Impact Challenge | Brazil. Where does the money from the Brazilian taxes go? Please, support us voting http://goo.gl/EzcfhP Estamos na final do Desafio de Impacto Social Google | Brasil! Quer saber para onde vai o dinheiro dos nossos impostos? Ajude e vote http://goo.gl/EzcfhP Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] simple and effective creation process for chapters
2014-05-03 11:56 GMT-03:00 Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com: I would settle for an open process, rather than a secretive AffComm. In Brazil, even trying to push an open process for years, even before AffComm existed, that didn't work. The problem is deeper. I am aware some simply gave up and jumped into other more pragmatic/do-ocratichttp://www.communitywiki.org/cw/DoOcracygroups to open up knowledge. :) -- Estamos na final do Desafio de Impacto Social Google | Brasil! Quer saber para onde vai o dinheiro dos nossos impostos? Ajude e vote http://goo.gl/EzcfhP We are a finalist of the Google Impact Challenge | Brazil. Where does the money from the Brazilian taxes go? Please, support us voting http://goo.gl/EzcfhP Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you!
2014-05-02 4:56 GMT-03:00 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com: On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit daunted. Actually it is more like this :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw This video should be at WMF job positions page! Welcome, Lila! I wish you lots of patience. An old message I sent here I recommend: https://www.mail-archive.com/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg05071.html Warm regards from Brazil. Do vstrechi, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
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[Wikimedia-l] [Job position] Fwd: Looking for an OKFestival events coordinator
Hi all, since we have several people here involved in organizing events or someone from your network might have this experience, please, see bellow this job position for an open knowledge event and spread the word for those who might be interested. Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Zara Rahman zara.rah...@okfn.org Date: 2013/11/12 Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Looking for an OKFestival events coordinator To: OKFN-Local-Coord okfn-local-co...@lists.okfn.org Hi all, We're on the hunt for an events coordinator to work with my lovely colleague Beatrice Martini on the Open Knowledge Festival 2014http://2014.okfestival.org/- know anyone who might be a good fit? Please encourage them to apply! http://okfn.org/jobs/#event Keywords: big participatory community event, inclusivity, diversity, great offline event experience, fantastic pre-during-post online engagement, proactive enthusiastic hands-on person. *Based anywhere in the world! * Deadline to apply is November 24 – very soon! Thanks, Zara -- Zara Rahman International Community Manager | skype: zara.rahman | @zararahhttp://www.twitter.com/zararah The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org *Empowering through Open Knowledge* http://www.okfn.org | @okfn http://www.twitter.com/okfn | OKF on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork| Blog http://blog.okfn.org | Newsletter http://okfn.org/about/newsletter/ -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] Office hours for VisualEditor
Has someone already started a book about wikidramas? One chapter called 00:00 would be a good one. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Job] OpenGLAM Community Manager
The Open Knowledge Foundation is looking for a part time (20 hours per week) community manager to help build our growing network of cultural heritage professionals, researchers and hackers working to open up data and content held by galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) on the web. Role description: The Open Knowledge Foundation is recruiting a community manager with experience in the field of open cultural heritage data and/or the Digital Humanities to work on the OpenGLAM initiative and Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana project. Dead line: Applications close on 16th September 2013. More details at: http://okfn.org/jobs/#OpenGLAMCommunityManager I think it would be useful to share with your local Wikimedia groups, mainly those good in GLAM activities. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] Feedback for the Wikimedia Foundation
2013/7/25 Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com: Speaking of template madness, the current horrible brokenness that are templates seem to be on the long term roadmap to be fixed. Fixing them requires breaking a whole lot, far more than a visual editor preference. Is two way community dialog on how to handle that on the roadmap? It might still be years and years away, but boy will it hurt, and we better brace ourselves. It seems more possible to have a wiki software developed from scratch than this to happen. If sometimes a small technological fart causes a pandemonium, what can we say about a real technological progress? Maybe a new community (less conservative?) to build a good encyclopedia can come up if a new platformn be invented? -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] About the concentration of resources in SF (it was: Communication plans for community engagement
Wikimedia Foundation planned a few years ago to open an office in Brazil, one India and one in the Middle East, but it has given up of this trial for several reasons. I think before thinking about the idea of this thread, these cases should be seriously studied, inclusing some possible problems and challenges that can raise when you have far workers from different culture doing a work led by an Americo-centric organization (that was, at least, one thing pointed out by some consultants during the last all staff meeting, if I undersstood well). And I think there is a good point about WMF office being in SF for a global organization. Its timezone is one example. What about the price of the city? But that would be a long discussion and the actual structure of the organization wouldn't allow this to change anytime soon. Now that we know that Internet in US is as safe as in Chinas (:D), maybe an office there would be a good trial? :) -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] The GAC wants you!
2013/7/13 rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com: i used imperfect people, core wikipedia people and typical content providing person in the last paragraphs, which probably needs a little explanation. wikipedia is built traditionally by imperfect volunteers, error-prone, partially educated, school or university drop outs, poor in project management, time management, financial management, constantly failing, redoing, miscalculating. the current process specifically targets these people with great accuracy and punishes them. it attracts a different type of person, and with it [...] Imperfect people: if there is some irony in the use of the word imperfect in yout definition as compared to the perfect ones, your definition is very funny. Mainly in a cultural context where it is embarassing to show our natural imperfection. :) Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY
Many consider that there are too many newbies on Internet that gets angry too easily and don't have patience with trivial things. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia for Diplomats (June 21)
Hi all, a friend of mine is moderating a debate about Wikipedia for diplomat, professor Marília Maciel, and I think it is of interested of some wikimedians. Please, see more infomation bellow http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-wikipedia-diplomats Diplo Foundation has cood courses on Internet Governance that may be of interest of those participating of some recent threads I've seen here. Share also with your local community. Regards, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Google Planning Wireless Networks To Connect The Next 1B People
@ Mobile team http://readwrite.com/2013/05/24/google-planning-wireless-networks-to-connect-the-next-billion-people http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578503350402434918.html Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] United Nations Summer School: Call for Applications (deadline 31 May)
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) is collaborating with EF Education First (EF) in the context of the firstUNAOC-EF Summer School http://www.unaocefsummerschool.org/, which will take place in Tarrytown, NY, USA, from 24 to 31 of August 2013. This UNAOC-EF Summer School will bring together 100 youth from all over the world for a week of discussions on pressing global challenges within the context of cultural and religious diversity. Several skills-building workshops will be offered with a view to strengthen participants’ ability on topics such as peace-building, human rights, advocacy, social entrepreneurship, etc. This year marks the fourth UNAOC Summer School. Youth (between 18 and 35) who are interested in attending this year’s summer school can apply at www.UNAOCEFSummerSchool.org http://www.unaocefsummerschool.org/ on or before 31 May 2013. Selected participants will be provided with flight, accommodation, meals and full event access. For more information about the UNAOC-EF Summer School, please contact i...@unaocefsummerschool.org http://www.unaocefsummerschool.org/. We encourage you to share this message with your networks of young people who might be interested by the UNAOC-EF Summer School. *Note: The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and EF Education First (EF) expect to officially launch UNAOC-EF Summer School in Spring 2013. However, UNAOC and EF reserve the right to not select any applicants, or to cancel the Summer School for any reason. UNAOC and EF accept no liability for cancelling the Summer School or for anyone’s failure to receive actual notification of cancellation.* More: http://www.unaoc.org/2013/05/unaoc-education-first-summer-school-call-for-applications/ -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Education Program Re: Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives
Hi Frank, I just saw now this report. Can you explain this line bellow, please? I didn't get it. Strategic direction in Brazil didn't work; Tom reporting to Jessie, disconnected from our work. Unclear lines of authority for decision-making; classes ended up as not particularly successful. Also, narrowing focus shifted Tom and Oona's efforts to finding a home for the Brazil program rather than expanding classes. I also would love to know who wrote this We anticipated focusing the majority of our efforts on Global South programs and I would love to know if Brazil is included in this focusing of efforts. If this includes Brazil, that is false. Thanks in advance, Tom On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: Minutes, pre-prepared notes and slides from the mid-year review meeting of the Wikipedia Education Program team have now been posted in a similar format at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Wikipedia_Education_Program/May_2013 -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_to_make_its_publications_available_free_of_charge_as_part_of_a_new_open_access_policy/ Great step done by UNESCO! If I understood well, only credit will be necessary. I am glad to see that, since in some conversations I've participated with UNESCO folks or at their events, mainly about open education resources, some didn't get why the non-commertial restriction is closed/non-free. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Hi. A curiosity. How could you go from 991k articles [1] to 1016k [2] in so few time? That is more than 20k articles in less than 2 days. Tom [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5486358 [2] http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticasaction=raw -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5486358 Well, it seems this page on meta get dynamicaly this number from some other place: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm I read once some discussion on the definition of total number articles because of this difference, I cannot remember where. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Haha, gracias for clarifying! And congratulations for the mark, it is indeeed impressive. Although my main goal for the Portuguese Wikipedia will be to help our comunity catalyse the quality of key articles for educational purposes, not necessarily the quantity. ;) On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, was a technical mistake for which the counter was not taking into account ~20,000 lists articles wich in spanish Wikipedia have a special name space (Anexo:...). Was a surprising also for us when that bugg was fixed today and true was revealed. However, the fact is today we have 1,000,000 articles and a plus. Don't be jealous Everton! :P I'm kidding :D -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)
appreciate (come on, there must be ONE) and tell them so? You'd be shocked how much gratitude they'll feel, because you may be the first community member EVER to tell them that. Best, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!
2013/5/9 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: I agree! If there is more people interested it would be good to have a point of coordination e.g. in Meta. http://okcon.org/call-for-proposals/ It'd be great to organize a page on meta for that. Good idea, Quim. I don't have time to lead this, but if some one do it, I can give some help. Wikidata, MediaWiki and your data [glup] We are not there, but we are heading to that direction. Do the open data community know? They should! Do they even know what MediaWiki (including the Semantic extension) and Wikidata has to offer today? They should! I said the same somewhere. I second that. At least here in Brazil, open data folks are hearing with attention about Wikidata. It would be great to know the opinion of the Wikidata team and the European chapters. Needless to say, there would be also people at the Wikimedia Foundation interested in this event. Sarah invited WMF to the event and I emphasized its importance. Lots and lots to collaborate, I think. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in blacklist trouble again
These days I just say this report - Less than 14% of World Lives in Countries with Free Press http://gijn.org/2013/05/07/less-than-14-of-the-world-lives-in-countries-with-a-free-press/ It would be interesting a global comparison on how these States with less freedom deal with Wikipedia. We could have a page with a table of countries where Wikipedia is partially/totally blocked, among other things. I wonder how it will be when we begin to use Internet for real. Tom 2013/5/8 Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net: Hi all, I think it should be noted that the Russian Wikipedia is having more and more problems with the state-maintained Internet blacklist (an idea that they heavily opposed, and which made them go on strike last July). Apparently, the infamous cannabis smoking article was put back on the said blacklist two days ago (May 6)[1] due to a decision of the Federal Drug Control Service which doesn't like the current wording of the article. The blacklist now includes fifteen (15) articles related to drugs and suicide: thirteen (13) from the Russian, and two (2) from the English Wikipedia[2]. This is the second time that the Russian Wikipedia is having trouble with the blacklist in the past 30 days, something that has unfortunately been missed over the DCRI controversy that occurred in the first days of April. shameless promotion For those of you who haven't heard of this yet, I prepared a short summary at http://twkozlowski.net/roskomnadzor-strikes-back/; the previous episode of the Wikipedia vs. Roskomnadzor story is described at http://twkozlowski.net/wikipedia-censorship-attempts/. /shameless promotion I'm quite sure that it is a mere coincidence that the Russian and French controversies occurred around the same time, but it's nevertheless a bit worrying to have to watch our communities being forced to edit the contents of articles to please the authorities take them off blacklists. == References == * [1] http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130507/181016379/Wikipedia-Cannabis-Article-Put-Back-on-Russian-Blacklist.html * [2] http://tiny.cc/e7urww -- Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!
It'd be great to see wikimedians there. Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Beatrice Martini beatrice.mart...@okfn.org Date: 2013/5/7 Subject: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now! To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org Hi! We are glad and excited to give you the news: the *OKCon Call for Proposals is launched today*! Read all about it on the OKCon websitehttp://okcon.org/call-for-proposals/ . Submit your proposals and share the news – we are looking forward to your ideas! Best, Beatrice -- Beatrice Martini Events Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation Skype: beatricemartini Twitter: @beatricemartini Support OKF: okfn.org/support ___ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WCA] Chapters Portal - Yet another Summary of information on Meta
Thanks, Manuel. That is useful.
Also I am on of the people who think it is useless to have a chapters
association at this moment (maybe ever?), it is important for us to
organize such kind of information in a more centralized way. :)
We also would need to have a way to share our best practices and learnings.
Tom
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Dear all,
it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy
place, with information scattered everywhere around.
It is on Meta (TM) is one of our most used (and feared) terms.
Also Wikimedia Chapters often have a hard time to keep their info
updated, provide their reports at the right place. A Chapters Portal
which links all information has been mentioned.
Since Ziko asked to link strategic plans on Meta (yet another place to
keep updated) and we (WMAT) recently got harrased because we didn't
publish our office address on a Meta page we never heard of before
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_offices - anyone?), I decided
now to be bold and go ahead:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Portal
I also linked this page now on {{Chapters association}} and
{{Chapters}}, so I hope people will find it and from there will find the
information they need.
Please, this is ongoing work - feel free to add more links, descriptions
etc. I tried to cluster the links as much as I could and provide a brief
description so people don't have to follow all the links to find what
they are looking for but it is not yet ready.
Regards,
Manuel
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[Wikimedia-l] Highlight the positive aspects and multicultural comparisons
Hi all, I just saw a nice thread at the Portuguese Wikipedia [1] where [[user:rjclaudio]], a very active wikipedian, point out the importance of highlighting also good contributions and what is good for Wikimedia projects, instead of only saying what is wrong, what you cannot do, that you have done a mistake. The discussion in this thread continues with wikipedians sharing their general feeling of all policies and recommendations emphasizing too much what cannot be done, what Wikipedia is not, what is not notorious or reliable, instead of acknowledging and encouraging contributors (mainly new ones), for small that is his or her contribution. I see this as a general pattern in the Wikimedia movement, not only online. But when asking people from other Wikimedia projects, like the Arabic and Swedish Wikipedias, I was told there is a better reception for new contributors, for instance. What about the Wikimedia projects you are involved with, do you see this pattern of highlighting only the odds? Or sometimes you only see destructive critics? If so, how can we improve that? No visual editor or editor engagement will improve that is we, as a global community, do not acknowledge there is some problem. Tom [1] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Fa%C3%A7a_coisas_positivas_(21abr2013) -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Wikimedia Conference feedback - Grazie mille!
Tante tante grazie, Wikimedia Italia! After 4 Wikimanias, this was my first Wikimedia Conference. A pity my Brazilian friends still didn't realise the importance of this event. So greate to see so many wonderful people to make things better and congratulations for your work! Arrivederci! Tom On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Fae faewik+g...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to give a personal thankyou to WMIT for successfully taking on the scary challenge of hosting the Wikimedia Conference. We can all see the team has put in a huge amount of effort and creativity into the conference. I loved visiting Milan for the first time, and being hosted in such a lovely venue and hotel (I can recommend eating out in Milan, all the food I have had here has been excellent). I look forward to being invited again :-D I'm in the feedback session right now, and I think there are excellent learning points to make to make life easier for our next host. Grazie mille! Fae -- Fae fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Wikimedia Conference feedback - Grazie mille!
[off-topic] On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks also to the Foundation board for holding a boring meeting with no surprises. Haha. There was a surprise for me. Jimbo thinks in South America the most spoken language is Spanish. Although looking now different places at Wikipedia articles this seems a little controversial and we need to fix some articles to to it be consistent. At this moment I left to read my book. And how come an English pub in Italia?! At least the grapa was good. ;) -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Open Organizations
Dear all, some friends and I were translating this nice diagram bellow focused on open government and I just had an idea. If you were going to add WMF in the middle of this diagram, where would be each element of the Wikimedia movement? Just a thought experiment. :) Tom [image: Imagem inline 1] -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Organizations
I tried to add though gmail with an external link from flickr. Maybe that is not allowed (I could see when sending). He is the link of the image (sorry!). http://www.flickr.com/photos/46274765@N07/8600245980/in/photostream Tom On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Dennis Tobar dennis.to...@gmail.comwrote: I don't see any image :| On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Dear all, some friends and I were translating this nice diagram bellow focused on open government and I just had an idea. If you were going to add WMF in the middle of this diagram, where would be each element of the Wikimedia movement? Just a thought experiment. :) Tom [image: Imagem inline 1] -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Dennis Tobar Calderón Ingeniero en Informática UTEM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: Incidently... given that most people would not be willing to publicly post their phone number and possibly other personal information... and that a wiki is actually not necessarily the best place to do such a thing, has it ever been considered to set up something dedicated to actually host contact information ? https://contacts.wikimedia.org/ Voilà. Interesting that you don't know. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more
Hi Phoebe and all, I am not say if saying this is wrong or brakes the confidentiality contract I've signed as a contractor. My apologies if it is wrong, but I think it is not. I am sorry to say there are some documents of projects I have been working on that I believe could be done directly on meta or some other public wiki. There are some cases, yes, some more elaborated document should be done to be released in public, but I don't think it is always the case. I believe we are wasting resources and energy in some cases not using the community intelligence and knowledge, even having very high qualified professionals working on this documents, as it is the case I have seen so far. Closed mailing lists, closed wikis, closed working groups, closed meetings... all this doesn't make me feel comfortable, to be honest. I don't want create a pandemonium here. My opinion here is just to share one thing I've felt that can diminish the power of crowdsourcing we are all used to and I believe we have to think ways to improve that. Wikimediaworld it too complex, there is too much information, projects and opinions going on and it is really difficult to organize all that. For instance, there is this https://collab.wikimedia.org What is this for?! I have receive (maybe?) one e-mail about this wiki and once I've seen a lot of crucial and important answers for the Brazil program were there. I cannot understand why it is not public. Really. Just to you have an idea, I've asked in December to have this collab (Collab of collaboration?) wiki to be on the main page of office wiki, but no answer so far. The organization has grown too fast and maybe it is time to rethink our best practices and how we operate, analysing everything we are using, creating a kind of guide, mainly for those professionals that will arrive? If I am not wrong, how can we do that? I love this from another group Running through all of our activities is a strong emphasis on *decentralized collaboration*. In particular, a primary aim is to help others develop open material as well as creating it ourselves. We believe that the future lies in collaboration between a multitude of different groups and that *no one group or organisation can, or should try to, “do it all*”. It is when we work together that we are the strongest. and I am not saying it is easy to implement it. But we have to be self critical on how to achieve this, for those who agree it is a better way to work. Tom On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:39 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: You're being snarky, but I am going to take this as a good-faith question I have access to the office wiki, left-over from being a board member, though I do not edit there and have only accessed it a couple of times over the years. I think I can safely say without violating confidentiality that it is mainly used as a tool to run a discrete, physical, boring office. It is where you will find things like staff phone numbers, info on the employee health plans, how to send to the office printers, and how to submit an expense report. As on internal, there's also lots of outdated stuff, like old notes from 2008 staff meetings; there are scratchpad idea pages that probably could be elsewhere, and there are some pages about department functions and project drafts that I'm sure no one would mind being on meta, but much of the interesting stuff is public (the annual plan, the communications calendar), and as far as I can see with a quick scan there are not large-scale discussions happening there. So, back to the start of the thread: using a wiki effectively does seem like a scoping question, yes, and I think internal (and any other internal/private wiki) would benefit from specific scoping like Mike proposes; his suggestions seem reasonable to me. I think I can also say without violating confidentiality that almost all of the mail to the internal list in the last few months has not been discussion focused, but rather has been notices of chapter board elections, meetings and reports, and I would love to see all that traffic be public (even if it's on a separate list so not everyone has to get the notices if they're not interested) -- there's nothing inherently confidential about it, and it would be nice for that info to be easily findable. -- phoebe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The Open Book now available online for free and in print
Hi all, for those in the Wikimedia movement interested on open knowledge more broadly, please, see bellow. I added on Wikimedia Commons a direct link to the PDF herehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheOpenBook_issuu_FINAL.pdf . Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Kat Braybrooke kat.braybrooke AT gmail.com Date: 2013/4/8 Subject: The Open Book now available online for free and in print To: openbook openb...@okfestival.org Cc: Antti Halonen antti.halonen AT finnish-institute.org.uk Hello, Thanks for your interest in the Open Book! We are happy to announce that after a lot of work and passion, this long-awaited publication is now available both online (for free!) and in print. THE CONTEXT // From makerspaces to data wrangling schools to archives, the digital is being remixed by the open – and it is changing society as we know it. The Open Book http://theopenbook.org.uk is an ambitious project to explore these emergent understandings, put together by The Finnish Institute in London as a part of the critical Reaktio series http://bit.ly/ZvrLn8 with the help of the Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org and a global team of contributors and mentors. THE BOOK // Inspired by the world’s first Open Knowledge Festival http://okfestival.org this fall in Helsinki, The Open Book explores the social and technological manifestations of this movement for the first time, featuring over 25 in-depth thought pieces written by pioneers of openness around the world from London to São Paulo - many of whom were suggested by you! Also included is “The Evolution of Open Knowledge” http://bit.ly/YGwj7N, the world’s first crowdsourced timeline of openness from 1425 to the current day which we asked you to contribute to http://bit.ly/122EuLV earlier this year. THE CONCLUSIONS // Due to the divisive nature of such an experimental publication, we do not attempt to present any single argument on what ‘open’ is. Instead, we hope The Open Book will serve as a platform for discussion and a launching pad for new ideas about the future of a global open knowledge movement in a time of rapid technological progress. THE LAUNCH // As many of you already know, The Open Book was officially launched at FutureEverything in Manchester last month: http://bit.ly/146xxwf Many thanks to everyone who came and showed their support - it was a great event! Here's a summary by Antti Halonen, Head of Society at the Finnish Institute: http://bit.ly/ZvqHjj GET YOUR COPY // Web: The Open Book is now available online for free as a PDF (CC-BY-SA license) at http://theopenbook.org.uk. Print: You can also grab a beautiful print copy at-cost via Amazon: http://amzn.to/ZcZ2xn. Please share with colleagues and friends! THE END // Lastly, and most importantly, we'd like to thank each of you from the bottom of our hearts for being involved - your ideas, advice and support have made this project possible, and your work continues to inspire us! We look forward to your discussions and feedback! For questions about the publication, you can email us at openb...@okfestival.org - and do take a moment to continue the debate on Twitter using the hashtag #TheOpenBook. With much love, The entire Open Book Editorial Team hi, i'm: @kat_braybrooke http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke | find me at: kaibray.com currently hacking popular culture at: mozilla http://webmaker.org otherwise, i'm into: open design http://design.okfn.org/ | the open bookhttp://theopenbook.org.uk/ -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets
Hi all, I've started a page on meta for Wikimedia Gadget http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Gadgets This page serves for people participating of the Wikimedia movement to brainstorm on news cool, fun and interesting Wikimedia gadgets. The ideas can discussed in several languages on the talk page to facilitate each local group to speak their ideas in their local language, if necessary. The idea is to expand the possibilities on what we have so far in the Wikimedia Shop http://shop.wikimedia.org/ and other local groups shops using the global community ideas and help local groups to outreach Wikimedia projects. A lot of times someone saw a Wikipedia backpack I have and they found really cool - people find these kind of things cool. This can help also local groups to develop their own things to outreach Wikimedia projects. Also, several times, I was faced in discussions with colleagues on possible new gadgets beyond those produced by Wikimedia Foundation, like a Wikipedia flip flop, for instance. Or when volunteers in Brazil organized a challenge with a initial idea to give some new gadgetd, like these ones in this news about this activity http://blogs.estadao.com.br/link/positivo-quer-wikipedia-offline-em-computadores/. I do think this can also help to outreach other less known Wikimedia Projects. For instance, when a cool banner was made here in Brazil https://docs.google.com/file/d/1c3Op5hG6ugo6gsQdmG7MzuG5jXyj_YJjYkcZ61DLi2aRBqlOXT-WKqqSAaKv/edit by volunteers to use at events, I've heard more than once people saying they didn't know other projects and that that was really cool. As another example, I've just discovered a cool t-shirt of Wikimedia Sweeden for the Wikipedia education program http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_i_utbildning_tshirt.jpg and their local shop http://wikimediasverige.spreadshirt.se/ with original and creative products. I hope this can bring new ideas and new gadgets. Please, make comments in the wiki page. Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets
Ciao Nemo. 2013/4/7 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Everton Zanella Alvarenga, 07/04/2013 15:23: The idea is to expand the possibilities on what we have so far in the Wikimedia Shop http://shop.wikimedia.org/ Is this approved by the WMF shop manager? Humm... Do volunteer need permission to share ideas? Maybe I was not clear, but the idea is to create prototypes so that we can have more creative things. The next stages, like creating, sellilng and other bureacratic stuff, is for the next stage. and other local groups shops using the global community ideas and help local groups to outreach Wikimedia projects. Is this approved by WMF legal? Wikimedia Italia had to close its shop years ago. Well, when people from WMF comes to Brazil with t-shirts, brochures, stickers etc., I think there is no need to ask any thing to WMF legal. Here we just receive these resources and share with volunteers on events and projects, helping to outreach Wikimedia projects. Since in Brazil there is no legal entity approved as a chapter, I was not even thinking about a local shop here, but just to focus on the creative side of volunteers and leave the (boring) bureaucratic stuff for bureaucrats. :) Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets
2013/4/7 James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.org: There's https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_merchandise which has a lot of this discussion already. Damn. Sorry, I didn't find this page! Thanks for pointing this out, James. I spent some minutes on meta looking for this, but the word merchandise was not on my head. And it seems some people who replied here didn't know also. Maybe it is a good idea to point this page more explicitly at shop.wikimedia.org. I'll suggest on wiki. I'll move some of the content here to this page before being bited, hehehe. Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets
Pessoal, já existia uma página disse que eu não consegui achar https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_merchandise#Link_to_this_page_at_the_top_of_shop.wikimedia.org.3F Depois seria legal traduzir a página principal no meta e pensarmos em produtos tupiniquins. Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
Ccing Sophie, from Wikimedia Sweeden, whom I had the pleasure to talk today and learned from their Education Program. We can still learn a lot. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/14/wikipedia-education-program-sweden/ Context: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March/thread.html (threads Office hour inside out (program evaluation)) More soon. Tom On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:26 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: After re-reading my email to Jessie and looking again at some of the recent WMF Monthly Reports, I think I may be making some assumptions about how Programs and Evaluations works that may be incorrect. Jessie, would you be willing to have an IRC office hour? I think that might address my questions and concerns faster than a prolonged email discussion on this list, although it has the disadvantage that fewer people are able to participate. Please email me off-list if you're willing to set up a time when we're both available. Yes definitely. Sorry for just now responding: somehow I totally missed these emails last week. Pine and I will coordinate on a time and send it around to the list! -- *Jessie Wild Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:30 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: May I ask, if you're working on things like the Learning Portal, what are Frank and other people within the programs and evaluations group working on? I'm interested in seeing a list of the current initiatives, what their goals are, when they started, who the task leads are, and what progress has been made so far. I think Frank's appointment was in August 2012 and it would be great to get an overview about what's been happening in Programs and Evaluations a since then. I've been hoping to see that information in the WMF monthly reports but I've seen surprisingly little info in the past few reports. I also would like to know that. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator
[off-topic] 2013/3/29 Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :) Yeah, we are going to have the world cup, where millions and millions of reais (our currency) is going to corrupts to an event that lasts only a few days and only high middle class to rich people (and foreigners, hey!) will have access to. And silly people believe in the silly arguments of economical benefits from this crap. Just hace a look at South Africa case. :( Fortunately, I hope I will stay far from Brazil to don't see this, because only who live here and use Brazilian public services (I am not mentioneing the blind middle class) will see the consequences in the mid and long term of so much corruption. Hopefully hotels will be so expensive that Wikimania here won't be sustainable. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Crisis of conscience Fwd: [REA]
Good example. -- Forwarded message -- From: Barbara Dieu beeonl...@gmail.com Date: 2013/3/27 Subject: [REA] Crisis of conscience To: rea-li...@googlegroups.com Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz In a dramatic show of support for the open access movement, the editor-in-chief and entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration announced their resignation last week. In a letter to contributors, the board singled out a conflict with owners over the journal's licensing terms, which stripped authors of almost all claim to ownership of their work. http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4149752/library-journal-resigns-for-open-access-citing-aaron-swartz Um abc B. -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Conference is live! Fwd: [OKFN-Local-Coord]
Hi all, I think this event is of interest of the Wikimedia movement, since it englobes open knowledge in a broad sense http://okcon.org/ It would be nice to see Wikimedia and OKFN local chapters collaborating for this event. Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Villum christian.vil...@okfn.org Date: 2013/3/21 Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] OKCon is live! To: Open Knowledge Foundation Local Coordinators Mailing List okfn-local-co...@lists.okfn.org Cc: local lo...@okfn.org In case you haven't heard it through the Internet tubes today: http://blog.okfn.org/2013/03/21/announcing-the-open-knowledge-conference-2013-open-data-broad-deep-connected/ Please tweet / blog / shout / smoke-signal like your life depends on it :) We really hope to see many of you there! (there will be a bursary program, more info later). -Christian -- Christian Villum | @villum Community manager, Open Government Data (OGD) Community manager, Local Groups network (LG) Open Knowledge Foundation | @okfn Building the digital commons - support our work: okfn.org/support ___ OKFN-Local-Coord mailing list okfn-local-co...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-local-coord Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-local-coord -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator
Good point, Florence. Is it like if we hired someone for a education position to work during one school term for only 6 months. Tom On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Welcome again Ellie A question came to my mind when I read the description of the job. - making sure there is good continuity and knowledge-transfer as the conference moves to new hosts year-over-year. Yet, she is taking on the role as an annual contract. Is there not a contradiction here ? Flo -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] IdeaLab (it was: Office hour inside out (program evaluation)) Re:
Hi, thanks for sharing the IdeaLab portal. [1] I didn't know it, although I knew portals and individual inside him, like the Individual Engagement Grants. I don't have time now to make longer comments, but two questions: 1) Is there a possibility for thie committee to be more open, like the WMF grants program? [2] 2) Isn't time for we think out of the box, I mean, out of the wiki and try technologies that can foster the community evaluation of projetcs/idea and discussions? I know the question is too general, but recently, for isntance, I thought about using a reddit like system for the Portuguese Wikipedia village pump for the community distringuish try to distinguish what is good or not. I mentioned something like All Our Ideas once http://www.allourideas.org/, but I think there are other things worth trying, if possible. P. S. Just look the discussion system inside a wiki. Damn. Tom [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Any initial thoughts on how to maximize the effectiveness of those two ideas (IdeaLab and Learning Portal)? -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
Hi, Pine. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:41 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Tom, I'm glad that you studied the IEP. I did this in the beginning mainly through Jessie Wild's support, who always kept articulating the SF staff for improve the education group learnings, and Nitika Tandon, now at CIS - a pity I barely talk to Nitika since a long time ago, although I have called her independently to learn more once. Although I have studied, we should have had more time for that. And I believe now with the learning team this will be improved at WMF. I'll share here also some thoughts I sent to my colleagues at the former global develoment efforts mainling list... I discovered some time ago an organization with interesting ideas regarding failures, Admiting Failure http://www.admittingfailure.com/. They say in the main page We have a conundrum. It is really hard to talk about failure. Admitting Failure is here to help. This is a community and a resource, created to establish new levels of transparency, collaboration and innovation within civil society. Fear, embarrassment, and intolerance of failure drives our learning underground. No more. Failure is strength. The most effective and innovative organizations are those that are willing to speak openly about their failures. Because the only truly bad failure is one that's repeated. Pretty interesting. :) Also, I discovered an interesting article of professor Daniel Dennett these days, which I would like also to recommend, How to make mistakeshttp://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/howmista.htm, where I quote The main difference between science and stage magic is that in science you make your mistakes in public. You show them off, so that everybody can learn from them--not just yourself. This way, you get the benefit of everybody else's experience, and not just your own idiosyncratic path through the space of mistakes. This, by the way, is what makes us so much smarter than every other species. It is not so much that our brains are bigger or more powerful, but that we share the benefits that our individual brains have won by their individual histories of trial and error. The secret is knowing when and how to make mistakes, so that nobody gets hurt and everybody can learn from the experience. It is amazing to me how many really smart people don't understand this. I know distinguished researchers who will go to preposterous lengths to avoid having to acknowledge that they were wrong about something--even something quite trivial. What they have never noticed, apparently, is that the earth does not swallow people up when they say, Oops, you're right. I guess I made a mistake. You will find that people love pointing out your mistakes. If they are generous-spirited, they will appreciate you more for giving them the opportunity to help, and acknowledging it when they succeed, and if they are mean-spirited they will enjoy showing you up. Either way, you--and we all--win. Which reminded me a TED talk of Igor Nikolic on Complex Adaptive Systemshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0zj_dYeBE I saw sometime ago, where he says What we really do is make mistakes all the time. The question is, how can we make mistakes in such a way we can recover from them? How do we do social experiments? [...] How do we do without making a big mess? How do we try different things in a environment without distroying it? And how do we learn from things that went wrong? That is something that we really have to address. We have to grow. What do I mean by that? It has to be a step-by-step thing evolving, adapting, learning. You cannot jump in the future. [...] And maybe most importantly, we have to do it together. Best wishes, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Pizza, Wikipedia and Education!
Hi all, I would like to suggest a meetup soon in Milan for those interested in the Education Program following the workshop that is going to happen there. There will be a workshop already most of the day, then we could have a meetup later in the night with Wikimedians from all over the world e, naturalmente, i nostri amici italiani! :) I have made a proposta on the talk page of the Education Workshop http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Program_Leaders_Workshop_2013#Pizza.2C_Wikipedia_and_Education.21 Please, if you have suggestions of places to go (pizza?! :D) to gather lots of Wikimedians interested in education or know people who might be interested, comment above and share this link. Arrivederci! Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!
Hi, Balázs and James, orkut was the most popular social networking platform until a few years ago. I don't have scientific research to prove that now, but from my networking, which includes poor to high middle class people, most have migrated to facebook. orkut is seen as a site where low middle class and poor people access, which is true if youu visit a Lan House in a slum in São Paulo - last time I went I've seen people using both, orkut and facebook. All my friends from a slum I've worked in a educational project near University of São Paulo use facebook, for instance. James link also confirms that. According to this Wall Street Journal news on social media in Brazil [1], Facebook Inc. has some 65 million users in Brazil, which makes it the company's second largest market after the U.S. by number of users, according to social-analytics company Socialbakers. Also People in Brazil are spending increasing amounts of time connected to social-media sites. Globally, the average time spent on Facebook dropped 2% to 361 average minutes per user per month by September 2012, compared with a year earlier, according to comScore research. But in Brazil, Facebook time grew 208% to 535 minutes over the same period. [...] Quite a lot to understand and this makes the data of this facebook page more striking. Tom [1] Brazil: The Social Media Capital of the Universe: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578257950857891898.html -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm so happy for everyone -- particularly for all the folks in the developing world who are now getting access to free knowledge they wouldn't otherwise have. This news was posted on facebook and a guy from Angola just asked when it will be available there for the Portuguese Wikipedia as well https://www.facebook.com/wikipediapt/posts/228266030650914?comment_id=947903offset=0total_comments=2 Kul, maybe it would be more useful for Angola and Mozambique than the Banana Republic. :) When I do the hangouts with Angolans and Mozambicans (on my spare time, sure), [Note] I'll analyse this to have a better insight. ;) Tom [Note] The statistics of a facebook page (led by volunteers) of the Portuguese Wikipedia [1] has shown some curious numbers because people who usually like it are from Luanda and Maputo cities in Africa, I've shared this information with some wikipedians [2] (obviously further analysis on this data with other methods is necessary) and invited experienced editors to participate of google hangouts where we are going to invite people from these countries to explain about Wikipedia and the Education Program. [3] Just to you have an idea, Luanda (population ~5 mi) has about 1.700 people who liked it, Maputo (pop. ~1.2 mi) 750, followed by São Paulo (pop. 11.3 mi) and Rio de Janeiro (6.2 mi) with 230 and 180, respectively. Maybe there is some bias on facebook we cannot have access to, but it will be really interesting to try to figure out that and the videos of these hangout can also be really interesting to try to understand how people in these countries use Wikipedia. A mobile project in these countries could also be interesting, but not sure if we can have it in the short term. I'll try to do these hangouts withe them, [3] anyone here is welcome to help. [1] https://www.facebook.com/wikipediapt [2] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Estat%C3%ADsticas_sobre_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia_lus%C3%B3fona_atrav%C3%A9s_do_facebook_e_Programa_de_Educa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_na_%C3%81frica_(22fev2013) [3] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Web_confer%C3%AAncia_sobre_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia_e_o_programa_de_educa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_com_leitores_de_Angola_e_Mo%C3%A7ambique_(22fev2013) -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Support the Public Domain Review
I think it is worth supporting it. Wikimedia Commons is one of its sources. Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Open Knowledge Foundation infoat okfn.org Date: 2013/3/12 Subject: Support the Public Domain Review To: Everton everton.alvarenga at okfn.org ** Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browserhttp://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=49ca53dfcce=b8ac17c531. http://okfn.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=9ff7efe23de=b8ac17c531 [image: SUPPORT THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW!]http://okfn.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=057c746784e=b8ac17c531 Hi Everton, I’m writing to you today about one of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s projects *The Public Domain Review* which is in need of your support at a crucial time. The Public Domain Review is a web-based journal showcasing the *most wonderful and unusual out-of-copyright works available online*. Through its curated collections and articles by leading scholars, writers, and archivists it entertains and amazes us with the beauty and breadth of the public domain -- *celebrating* and *raising the awareness* about the value of our* shared cultural commons* at a time when it is increasingly under threat. http://okfn.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=2d54b9d201e=b8ac17c531 With its initial funding now run ended, the Public Domain Review *urgently needs your donations to continue its work*. http://okfn.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=0de26f40a9e=b8ac17c531 The Review has been the brainchild of Adam Green who has dedicated immense time and effort - most of it as a volunteer - to editing and curating the Review over the last two years. The wonderful video calling for your support is another entirely volunteer effort created under Adam's direction (and featuring him in a starring role!). While operating on a minimal budget the Review has done an amazing job. Highlights from last year include an article by *Man Booker prize winner Julian Barnes* and attention from the likes of the *New York Times*, *Huffington Post*, *Vice magazine*, and the *Paris Review*. I therefore very much hope you will join me in supporting The Public Domain Review and ensuring that it continues to showcase and celebrate the incredible beauty and richness of the public domain. To *donate* or* learn more* about the fundraising campaign please visit: http://publicdomainreview.org/supporthttp://okfn.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=81f8fff262e=b8ac17c531 All the very best, Rufus Pollock Founder, Open Knowledge Foundation follow on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/OKFN/ | forward to a friendhttp://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=49ca53dfcce=b8ac17c531 unsubscribe from this listhttp://okfn.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=1524478d61e=b8ac17c531c=49ca53dfcc| update subscription preferenceshttp://okfn.us2.list-manage2.com/profile?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977id=1524478d61e=b8ac17c531 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market
Folks, please, stop with this irony and let's move the office from San Francisco to Brazil. *Then* we can begin to speak about suits, ferraris and being surronded by pretty girls with a WMF wage. We would also have nice fruits and the best beaches. Tom On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Next time someone balks at my day rate, I'm just going to say I need a new Ferrari and twenty new Hugo Boss suits a year or you'll feel the force of a discrimination case at the employment tribunal. And I'll remind you to solve all opened tickets. You're welcome to speak up after finished. Have a nice day. Night. s. :-P g ps: Ferrari? Suits? What planet is this? -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Brazilian Wikipedia editing workshop in homage to International Women’s Day
*After learning the basics needed to create a Wikipedia article, the participants improved existing articles related to feminism, as part of a celebration of International Women’s Day* [image: Primeiro mutirão de edição da Wikipédia para e com mulheres]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primeiro_WikiMulheres.jpg Primeiro mutirão de edição da Wikipédia para e com mulheres Para aproximá-las do universo “wiki,” os voluntários dos projetos Knowledge is power: no one should doubt that. Although the possibility of contributing knowledge to the biggest encyclopedia of the world, Wikipedia, is free and open for anyone, about 91 percent of its editors are men. What, then, is the prospect for women in this story? In order to engage women in the “wiki” universe, volunteers of the Wikimedia projects in Brazil, with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation, organized a workshop about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projectshttp://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/chapter:Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher/2013 and proposed a joint effort for editing the encyclopedia in homage to International Women’s Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day. The meeting took place on March 2nd at The Hub http://saopaulo.the-hub.net/ and gathered men and women interested in learning and practicing the editing of Wikimedia projects. About 15 people attended the event, where they discussed the criteria for writing and publishing a Wikipedia article, the sources that may be considered reliable and the collaborative dynamic of editing. At the end of the workshop, the group dedicated themselves to improving articles related to women and feminism: “Women’s Rights” and “Grace Hopper” (“Direitos da mulher” http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direitos_da_mulher and “Grace Hopper”http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper in Portuguese) were two examples of such contributions. “The steps for editing an article are simple, and from what I have observed in the meetup, anyone can learn them quickly,” said Fernanda Campagnucci, from Ação Educativa http://www.acaoeducativa.org.br/, who edited the article about women’s rights, her first contribution to the project. “But we live in a society where the sharing of knowledge is unequal and the technology is still often considered part of the masculine universe. It is this vision that we need to break.” To discuss and overcome the lack of women collaborating on Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement maintains a page (Gender Gaphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_Gap) to gather information, references and ideas on the subject, in addition to promoting activities like this workshop. With the goal of increasing women’s participation in the project, new women editors are encouraged to join mailing lists https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap and online communitieshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_Gap#Projects_within_Wikimedia_communities . The Wikimedia movement in Brazil expects that this initiative in Sao Paulo will inspire volunteers from other regions of the country to help the event become regular every March, extending the debate about women’s participation in Wikipedia and lowering the gender gap. You can contact the Wikimedia volunteers in Brazil http://br.wikimedia.org/ to obtain more information. Everybody is welcome to participate and organize upcoming events! *Fernanda Campagnucci (NGO Ação Educativa)* *Translation by Tom and Cristiana Gonzalez* - See more photos of the edithaton herehttp://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher/2013#Fotos http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/08/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-brazil-honors-international-womens-day/ Happy women's day! Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Students for Free Culture annual conference
-- Forwarded message -- From: Students for Free Culture webleader+rss-...@freeculture.org Date: 2013/3/5 Subject: [FC-discuss] Register for FCX2013! To: disc...@freeculture.org Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at [New York Law School][1] on April 20-21st! The Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of student and non-student activists, thinkers, and innovators who are dedicated to advancing discussions on technology, law, and public policy. Through panels and keynote speakers, FCX 2013 will focus on current issues in intellectual property law, open access to educational resources, maker culture, and technology policy. Through workshops, the conference will revisit the core pillars of the free culture movement, examine the success stories from our movement, and identify new ways in which Students for Free Culture can advocate for a more free, open, and participatory digital environment. For more information about the conference, visit the conference [website][2]. Registration is [open][3]! Through the generosity of our sponsors, [Students for Free Culture][4] is once again able to offset student travel costs for this year’s conference in NYC. Our first priority is to provide funding to at least one student from every active chapter in the organization – but funding is available to _all_ student activists and leaders who would like to attend FCX2013. If you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC next month, please do not hesitate to fill out this [form to request travel funding][5]. We have some money and we want to give it to you. If you have friends at schools that do not currently have an active SFC chapter but you think they should be at the conference, please pass along [this link][5] to them, too. Sometimes attending the conference is just the spark that someone needs to get out there and start a new chapter on their campus! [1]: https://www.google.com/maps?q=new+york+law+schoolhl=ensll=40.6 97488,-73.979681sspn=0.69759,1.233215hq=new+york+law+schoolt=mz=15 [2]: http://freeculture.org/feed/fcx2013.org [3]: http://fcx2013.eventbrite.com [4]: http://freeculture.org/ [5]: http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/03/06/register-for-fcx2013/ ___ Discuss mailing list disc...@freeculture.org http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all, I would like to invite you all to help to improve this page on possible and actual collaborations between the Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation. http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_and_Wikimedia_Foundation In Brazil, Germany and UK, we have already seen some projects where we had OKFNers and wikimedians collaboration with each other. I invite you all to think how to improve it for the sake of the awesomeness of both organizations and their visions. http://okfn.org/about/vision/ http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision Hugs, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation
(Quick comment - cannot engage in the discussion now) Fae, thanks for moving this page! I agree with this. Sarah, I'll be using OKFN wiki, which I've been using since 2011, for organize the bylaw, board and advisory board. Let's discuss this on the OKFN channels later, it's a pity I could not go to Cambridge this year to strongly oppose that. I don't think we (OKFN) should have an internal wiki (!) and/or close it. If OKFN stops using its wiki or closes it (I hope we don't!), we should move the page I started with Kat to meta. Tom On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 March 2013 13:42, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: We're actually even considering making the wiki internal because it's not fruitful for anyone outside of the internal community. So..don't expect much to happen with that wiki space. I think it would be great to have a public page like this to demonstrate our partnerships between the two organizations. It is a handy thing to point to, in order to show off some of the stuff our global networks of volunteers work together on. It seems a pity to only do this on a country-by-country basis. The UK chapter has a page for active GLAM partnerships https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cultural_partnerships and a historical record forms part of our Annual Report (the next one will be at https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2013_Annual_Report/Partnerships). I think doing something wider like this for a couple of close partners is sensible (i.e. those partners where our Mission greatly over-laps), so long as it can be maintained and is somewhere where we can find it again (!) ;-) Cheers, Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Provisional Wikimedia Kenya no longer a chapter
2013/3/1 James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com: I'm very confused, could you explain a bit more about what you were trying to say with this link? http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Comit%C3%AA_de_Cap%C3%ADtulos/Resposta_aos_questionamentos_2010_02 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] The Church of Reason
[...] It began with reference to a newspaper article about a country church building with an electric beer sign hanging right over the front entrance. The building had been sold and was being used as a bar. One can guess that some classroom laughter started at this point. The college was well known for drunken partying and the image vaguely fit. The article said a number of people had complained to the church officials about it. It had been a Catholic church, and the priest who had been delegated to respond to the criticism had sounded quite irritated about the whole thing. To him it had revealed an incredible ignorance of what a church really was. Did they think that bricks and boards and glass constituted a church? Or the shape of the roof? Here, posing as piety was an example of the very materialism the church opposed. The building in question was not holy ground. It had been desanctified. That was the end of it. The beer sign resided over a bar, not a church, and those who couldn’t tell the difference were simply revealing something about themselves. Phædrus said the same confusion existed about the University and that was why loss of accreditation was hard to understand. The real University is not a material object. It is not a group of buildings that can be defended by police. He explained that when a college lost its accreditation, nobody came and shut down the school. There were no legal penalties, no fines, no jail sentences. Classes did not stop. Everything went on just as before. Students got the same education they would if the school didn’t lose its accreditation. All that would happen, Phædrus said, would simply be an official recognition of a condition that already existed. It would be similar to excommunication. What would happen is that the real University, which no legislature can dictate to and which can never be identified by any location of bricks or boards or glass, would simply declare that this place was no longer holy ground. The real University would vanish from it, and all that would be left was the bricks and the books and the material manifestation. It must have been a strange concept to all of the students, and I can imagine him waiting for a long time for it to sink in, and perhaps then waiting for the question, What do you think the real University is? His notes, in response to this question, state the following: The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It’s a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title of professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself. In addition to this state of mind, reason, there’s a legal entity which is unfortunately called by the same name but which is quite another thing. This is a nonprofit corporation, a branch of the state with a specific address. It owns property, is capable of paying salaries, of receiving money and of responding to legislative pressures in the process. But this second university, the legal corporation, cannot teach, does not generate new knowledge or evaluate ideas. It is not the real University at all. It is just a church building, the setting, the location at which conditions have been made favorable for the real church to exist. Confusion continually occurs in people who fail to see this difference, he said, and think that control of the church buildings implies control of the church. They see professors as employees of the second university who should abandon reason when told to and take orders with no backtalk, the same way employees do in other corporations. They see the second university, but fail to see the first. [...] The primary goal of the Church of Reason, Phædrus said, is always Socrates’ old goal of truth, in its ever-changing forms, as it’s revealed by the process of rationality. Everything else is subordinate to that. Normally this goal is in no conflict with the location goal of improving the citizenry, but on occasion some conflict arises, as in the case of Socrates himself. It arises when trustees and legislators who’ve contributed large amounts of time and money to the location take points of view in opposition to the professors’ lectures or public statements. They can then lean on the administration by threatening to cut off funds if the professors don’t say what they want to hear. That happens too. True churchmen in such situations must act as though they had never heard these threats. Their primary goal never is to serve the community ahead of everything else. Their primary goal is to serve, through reason, the goal of truth. [...] Zen and the
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing
Hi, Megan. Wouldn't be better to add our data on some wiki page or spreadsheet? By the way, I've seen the banner once yesterday on the Portuguese Wikipedia (blue background), but I seldom use Wikipedia logged out. I am in São Paulo. Tom On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users (excluding the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Hiding banners after one impression is new for us, and any feedback we can get on how it's working will really help us. We are trying to minimize the number of banners our users see each year. If you visit Wikipedia anonymously (and you're outside of the 5 English countries), have you seen any fundraising banners in the last two weeks? If so, how many times have you seen a banner? Thanks for your help! Megan On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi all, We wanted to let you know the fundraising team is starting up testing in February. We're starting at low levels, so most people will not even notice banners to start with. 5% of anonymous users will see a banner just one time. We are not showing any banners to logged in users. There was an announcement in November about us splitting up the fundraiser this year. Just a very quick recap: We ran the end-of-year campaign in November and December in the top 5 English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). The campaign was successful and we were able to take the banners down a few weeks ahead of schedule: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_raises_25_million_in_2012_fundraiser We are now working on starting up testing in countries that were not included in the end-of-year campaign. We'll be working on translations and optimizing our donation pages in many countries over the coming months. We will post a report of the year-end campaign with much more detailed information and will send a note to this mailing list when it's available. We always need help making improvements in different countries and languages. If you have any suggestions, please do leave us a note on the fundraising meta discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 Thanks! Megan -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member
Hi, sure I didn't mean every external consultancy is evil. Sorry if I sounded like that. Firstly, the world is not divided between good and evil, like if we had an axis of evil. :P Just as an example, the same company I just criticized had a better performance in another country. Things can vary a lot and I am sure people in charge of the particular process are aware of that. I just wanted to remind a particular case that I believe is worth studying. And I do think sometimes to have an external consultancy can help us to diminish our own bias. ;) Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Sounded like good intervention, thanks for reminding me :) Truth is of course that board Governance Committee is driving this process together with Gayle. That means that multiple community (s)elected board members are involved in the initial screening and that the whole board will be included in the final selection. This would also be a good opportunity to make a small point: not all external consultancy is evil :) As a community we tend to be naturally suspicious of people that get paid a lot of money for tasks that theoretically could also be done my the community… There is a good reason why we sometimes rely on paid external advisors, some of which were given by Gayle. m|Oppenheim in particular has been a great partner in WMF hiring with great results, and I hope that they can be as effective in this search (which we hope you can help out with by suggesting good candidates to them) Regards Jan-Bart -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
Hi, Andrew. Recently I came to a subject I first listened about 13 years ago in the work of Murray Gell-Mann on complex adaptive systems, when I just started to study physics. I think Wikipedia is an interesting system to analyse such subject. Please, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/10._Social_Ties:_Networking_Together#The_Magic_of_Wikis.3F http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki I haven't been making research recently, but on my spare time I've been studying related to that. And because of Jonathan Morgan reseach bellow on WikiProjects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikiproject_Participation_%26_Mentorship this paper https://docs.google.com/file/d/1nTHh4GRswNaa5mQE4aQc3AZQf3SpSojGsOR9LQTbCj1OBlq4xnLNalkuvKAP/edit and discussion with the Portuguese Wikipedia community, we are trying, through discussions with the network of the Ministry of Healthy in Brazil, to revitalize the medicine WikiProject on the Portuguese Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The idea is to form a critical mass of contributors and see how much it will improve the content on this subject, working also together with other partner we have made through the catalyst program in Brazil, like translation universities. Thus a complex adaptive system is the most interesting thing that came to me because of Wikipedia. Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find interesting are often unusual :-) Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
P. S. because of that, I am also really curious on what will happen when someone use a MOOC with Wikipedia. See this proposal, for instance https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses It will be quit interesting to see the possibly good effects of students engaging on Wikipedia to improve it. This is very related to this also interesting research on what Wikipedia can teach us about the future of journalism http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/what-wikipedia-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-news/ Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Andrew. Recently I came to a subject I first listened about 13 years ago in the work of Murray Gell-Mann on complex adaptive systems, when I just started to study physics. I think Wikipedia is an interesting system to analyse such subject. Please, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/10._Social_Ties:_Networking_Together#The_Magic_of_Wikis.3F http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki I haven't been making research recently, but on my spare time I've been studying related to that. And because of Jonathan Morgan reseach bellow on WikiProjects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikiproject_Participation_%26_Mentorship this paper https://docs.google.com/file/d/1nTHh4GRswNaa5mQE4aQc3AZQf3SpSojGsOR9LQTbCj1OBlq4xnLNalkuvKAP/edit and discussion with the Portuguese Wikipedia community, we are trying, through discussions with the network of the Ministry of Healthy in Brazil, to revitalize the medicine WikiProject on the Portuguese Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The idea is to form a critical mass of contributors and see how much it will improve the content on this subject, working also together with other partner we have made through the catalyst program in Brazil, like translation universities. Thus a complex adaptive system is the most interesting thing that came to me because of Wikipedia. Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find interesting are often unusual :-) Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki Using google cache because this page is not working (maybe only today?) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C7l687ionEAJ:wiki.cas-group.net/index.php%3Ftitle%3DSelf-Organizationhl=pttbo=dstrip=1 See Web 2.0 and Wiki. T -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaau-l] Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: There is now a downloadable MP3 (50min) at http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/02/15/3691244.htm . Have someone tried to ask permission to open this content with a free license? At least in Brazil it worked sometimes with me when I asked and I could add them on Commons, even when dealing with the big news media. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia Fwd: [Wikimedia Education]
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:18 AM Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia To: Wikimedia Education educat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement Grant proposal for an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course' systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity, edX). Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands of students, so there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching *about* Wikipedia. If you're interested, have a look at the proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk. Cheers, Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity) ___ Education mailing list educat...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration
(Sorry for the cross-posting, but today is Saturday.) *Important dates:* Proposals Submission Due: January 31, 2013 Full Chapters Due: March 15, 2013 Final Submission Due: July 1, 2013 *Editors (to whom chapters should be sent and questions addressed): Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu mailto:fichman at indiana.edu); Noriko Hara (nhara at indiana.edu mailto:nhara at indiana.edu) Indiana University, Bloomington. *Introduction:* Wikipedia offers articles in 285 languages and more than 80% of Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English. In addition, the English Wikipedia itself attracts users from all over the world. This global nature of Wikipedia provides a rich socio-technical environment to examine a wide range of international and cross-cultural issues. Despite the global reach of Wikipedia, most of the published works about Wikipedia are based on the English site. More research should pay attention to the global, multilingual nature of Wikipedia to gain a better understanding of online international cooperation, on one hand, and of cross-cultural variations in mass knowledge production processes and outcomes, on the other. The purpose of this book is to explore a wide range of international and cross-cultural issues as they are manifested on Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in research that takes a socio-technical perspective on the global Wikipedia and integrates social theory to explain online interactions. For example, we invite studies on online global collaboration, coordination, and conflict management in this rich socio-technical environment. We hope that these works will highlight implications for other socio-technical environments or extend the use and development of social theory. This unique publication aims to be a collection of international and cross-cultural research on the Wikipedia.We expect that this edited volume will appeal to academic researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students interested in Wikipedia and, more broadly, in social studies of information and communication technologies, as well as to Wikipedia contributors. *Recommended topics*: We are seeking chapters that include both empirical and conceptual work and soliciting innovative analysis of international and cross-cultural aspects of Wikipedia to be part of this book. Appropriate topics for chapters include (but are not limited to) the following list: ·Case studies of Wikipedia in one of the 285 languages, with special interest in small and medium size Wikipedias; for example, focusing on policies, processes, interactions or information quality ·Conflict and collaboration in editing international entries on any particular language of Wikipedia ·International and cross-cultural collaboration; for example, international cooperation in fighting vandalism ·Intercultural synergy across boundaries on Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects ·Cross-cultural studies that compare more than one Wikipedia, for example, focusing on: ·Cross-cultural comparisons of content, structures, and contributions ·Comparative studies of policies, interactions, and processes ·Efforts to understand similarities and differences across Wikipedia in multiple languages in user motivations, establishment and maintenance of local communities and challenges ·Comparative analysis of editing policies around the globe ·Information quality across two or more Wikipedia languages ·Comparison of scope and representation of topics across Wikipedia in several languages ·Vandalism and trolling behaviors across national and language boundaries Chapters are expected to have between 4000 and 5000 words (excluding references, figures, and tables). Only original work whose copyright is owned (or cleared) by the chapter authors and not considered for publication elsewhere can be considered for inclusion. *Important dates*: *January 31, 2013: submit 2-3 page chapter proposals and authors’ bios (200 words) *Feb 1, 2013: receive acceptance notification *March 15, 2013:*submit first full chapters *May 15, 2013: receive reviewers’ comments *July 1, 2013: submit final versions This book is scheduled to be published by Scarecrow Press. For additional information, please visit https://rowman.com/Scarecrow. Scarecrow Press is the publisher of, among other titles, /Digital Media/: /Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World/ (2011). The publication is anticipated to be released in 2014. ** EASA Media Anthropology Network http://www.media-anthropology.net For further information please contact: Dr. John Postill RMIT University, Melbourne jrpost...@gmail.com To manage your subscription to this mailing list, visit: http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/medianthro-easaonline.org -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner
Awesome. I have close people that arrived in the finals of this challenge, and I know how difficult it is to be awarded with this prize. Congratulations! Tom On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org wrote: +1 to what Fabrice said (not only myself but many others I know have applied a couple of times) Congratulations! Oona -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alexandre Hannud Abdo abdo at member.fsf.org Date: 2013/1/17 Subject: [Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz To: Wikimedia BR wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Ni! Friends, I just received this email from Demand Progress and Lawrence Lessig, in response to Aaron Swartz's tragic passing. Click here to support Aaron's Law and the effort to achieve justice for Aaron: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/aaron_justice/?referring_akid=1969.1596981.8zbJ9Vsource=mailto We spent yesterday burying and mourning our friend Aaron. We're sad, we're tired, we're frustrated -- and we're angry at a system that let this happen to Aaron. Now we want to set upon honoring his life's work and helping to make sure that such a travesty is never repeated. We and Aaron's friends and family have been in touch with lawmakers to ask for help, and several of them -- who've worked with Aaron and Demand Progress on SOPA and other issues -- are beginning to take action. We're asking them to help rein in a criminal justice system run amok, wherein authorities are encouraged to bring frivolous charges and hold decades of jail time over the heads of people who are accused of committing victimless crimes. 1) Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced what's been named Aaron's Law. It would fix a key part of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which is one of the statutes under which Aaron was indicted. We need to pass Aaron's Law AND further amend the CFAA. The CFAA makes violations of a website's terms of service agreement or user agreement -- that fine print you never read before you check the box next to it -- a FELONY, potentially punishable by many years in prison. That's how over-broad this dangerous statute is, and one way it lets showboating prosecutors file charges against people who've done nothing wrong. Aaron's Law would decriminalize violating these agreements: They're essentially contracts, and as with other contracts, disputes about them should be settled in civil courts rather than in out of control criminal trials under threat of decades of prison time. Aaron's Law alone wouldn't have saved Aaron -- there is still more to do to make sure that victimless computer activities are not charged as felonies -- but this is a solid start that we can pass now and it's a law he wanted to change. Then we'll keep pushing forward. Click here to join us in demanding justice for Aaron: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/aaron_justice/?referring_akid=1969.1596981.8zbJ9Vsource=mailto 2) Additionally, we asked Congressman Darrell Issa -- who controls the powerful Oversight Committee -- to open an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct in Aaron's case. Amazingly, he's already responded and is sending an investigator to the office of the U.S. Attorney who was pressing charges against Aaron. We want the inquiry to proceed, and to be broadened to include a more thorough investigation into rampant over-prosecution of alleged crimes with no victims -- as in the case of what Aaron was accused of. And we want those who abused their power to be held to account. We loved Aaron -- so many people loved Aaron -- and his death is tragic. We and others who were close to him are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support, and the calls for justice. Thank you for joining us in that fight. Click here to join us in demanding justice for Aaron: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/aaron_justice/?referring_akid=1969.1596981.8zbJ9Vsource=mailto -Demand Progress ___ WikimediaBR-l mailing list wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] This is an encyclopedia
Hi, Pine. I want add the Portuguese version on mine later. I added on our village pump and a volunteer from Portugal kindly translated it http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Isto_%C3%A9_uma_enciclop%C3%A9dia_(16jan2013) A wikipedian even suggested a Wikipedia globe around the pale blu dot and some other artistic ideas after the above thread. Kindness will bring kindness. Beaty will bring beauty. :) Tom On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:41 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Tom, I too like that work of Catherine. I have it on my userpage also. Pine -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] This is an encyclopedia
THIS IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve the well of our future, The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us, The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands, And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know. *Catherine Munro* inspired by *This is a printing officehttp://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/labels/wardePrintOffice.html *, by Beatrice Warde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Warde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro Just discovered from a wikipedian friend from Kenya. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop
When Wikimedia projects volunteers in Brazil were organizing a challenge for the Portuguese Wikipedia [1], there were some ideas of making personalized Wikipedia objects [2] adapter for the local context for the prizes, like flip flops, among others, mainly because of our famous [citation needed] havaianas. [3] [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/21/grand-prix-wikimedia-brazil-racing-towards-a-better-wikipedia/ [2] http://blogs.estadao.com.br/link/positivo-quer-wikipedia-offline-em-computadores/ [3] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havaianas On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2013 14:02, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote: snip But if you really want me to get excited about the shop, try stocking flip flops with modified soles. I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd like to walk along the beach leaving a trail of [citation needed] tracks. WSC I have to saythis is brilliant. Plus it made me laugh out loud. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
It is worth to listen professor Lessig interview on Democracy now http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/an_incredible_soul_lawrence_lessig_remembers#.UPRn4_WqvF0.twitter An Incredible Soul -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't progress that much from what it could be. We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002 http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read. We can find videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wrote this initiative one decade ago, explaining in details the logics behind all this. The publish (on closed journals) or perish still reigns in the academia, so it is very important we explain the importance of knowledge to be free for every single person we meet. Still a lot to do. Tom On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Good lord, so it did. My apologies! It was making the rounds tonight and my excitement got the better of me. This is why I don't work in communications! -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Congrats for the blog post about Aaron. I asked some friends to create a homage for him and I will translate for Portuguese. From another mailing list, a petition was create on Avaaz, an organization Aaron work to also. See bellow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Harry Halpin hhalpin AT ibiblio.org Date: 2013/1/13 Subject: [okfn-discuss] Petition to have MIT and US Govt. issue an apologies for prosecuting Aaron Schwartz To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org I made a petition to demand an from MIT and the US Attorney of Massachusetts apologies for their prosecution of Aaron Schwartz, a prosecution that his parents say is partly to blame for his suicide. The US Federal Government is also added since laws on the federal level allow this kind of absurd prosecution. Feel free to sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Federal_Government_and_MIT_issue_a_formal_apologies_for_the_death_of_Aaron_Schwartz/?wgeiRd From the official statement of Swartz's family: Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney's office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community's most cherished principles. On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Splendidly done. I'm mobile all day; could someone add a link to that, from the relevant section of [[WP: RIP]], please? On Jan 13, 2013 6:45 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: The blog post it out now: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/ -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
I just created an article for him on Portuguese Wikipedia. I want to improve about this On July 19, 2011, he was arrested for harvesting academic journal articles from JSTOR. Very sad. Tom On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Sorry, I don't know better - in what way was A. S. related to the Wikimedia movement? Kind regards Ziko 2013/1/12 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com: I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html Awful news. -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
[...] The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a free, online encyclopedia that anyone could edit or add things to or reorganize, right through their web browser. I built the whole thing, added lots of cool features, tested it on all sorts of browsers, and was very proud of it. It actually won even a prize for one of the best new web applications that year. Unfortunately, the only people I knew at the time were other kids in my school, so I didn't really have anyone writing a lot of encyclopedia articles. (Luckily, several years later, my mother pointed me to this new site called Wikipedia that was doing the same thing.) [...] From How to Get a Job Like Mine https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget. Thanks for the links bellow. This was a really horrible lost for all of us. Tom On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings during his election campaign are worth re-reading: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedias http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikicodeislaw He was also described as one of the early architects of Creative Commons by Larry Lessig [1], and founded infogami which merged into Reddit, so he's sometimes called a Reddit co-founder as well. Since then he's turned to activism and co-founded Demand Progress which has been rallying opposition to bad Internet law, including SOPA/PIPA. Cory Doctorow's obituary is a very personal goodbye and includes a video of Aaron's talk How we stopped SOPA. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html Aaron was an intense, passionate and focused intellectual who dedicated his life to changing the world for the better - and he did. It's a shocking loss and deeply sad that he left us so early, that he saw no other way. May he rest in peace. Erik [1] http://www.lessig.org/2006/09/if-i-could-vote-on-the-wikiped/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Consequences, risks and side-effects of “non-commercial” licenses
Please, see bellow the message of Joris. Since he is not subscrived, his e-mail returned. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Joris Pekel joris.pe...@okfn.org wrote: Hi all, we have used Transifex to translate the document and the source text can be found there. https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/NC-License I have just set up a Portugese translation which people can join. Other languages can be added to. Best, Joris -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Consequences, risks and side-effects of “non-commercial” licenses
After reading this document which was published under a cc-by license we decided that it was worth it to create an English version as well. We put out a request to the German OKFN volunteers and got a couple of responses. Within a few days the complete document was translated. Then, the original authors were consulted and they agreed to proofread the document. This was also a great opportunity to implement some of the comments they received from the German Wikimedia community after publishing. With the help of Wikimedia Deutschland, we were able to fit the document in the same design as the original. And now in early 2013, we are very happy to announce the final version of the document translated to English. Download “Consequences, Risks, and side-effects of the license module Non-Commercial – NC” here. http://openglam.org/files/2013/01/iRights_CC-NC_Guide_English.pdf http://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/08/consequences-risks-and-side-effects-of-the-license-module-non-commercial-use-only/ It is funny that in this morning I was just explaining to a chemistry friend about the risks of the NC restriction and I gave just some of the examples used in this guide. Wikipedia is the best way to explain to people about that. Congratulations to Wikimedia Deutschland and Open Knowledge Foundation Germany for this work. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Consequences, risks and side-effects of “non-commercial” licenses
Nathan, I am ccing my friend Joris Pekel, from OKFn, who might help you in puting you in touch with the right people. :) I shared it on my facebook and a wikimedian is already willing to translate to Portuguese now with the English version. Off: this makes me think again how would Portuguese Wikipedia improve in a hypothetical scenario where at least 50% of the Brazilian population knew English (well, a good fraction barely speak well their mother tongue). Tom On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for posting this, very interesting reading. Quick suggestion to WMDE if they plan on publishing this formally in English - it could stand some editing by a native-level English writer. Thanks again! -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] Add your resources
For those here interested that are not part of the education list. -- Forwarded message -- From: LiAnna Davis lda...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:42 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Add your resources To: educat...@lists.wikimedia.org I've been working on revamping the Resources page in the education portal of the outreach wiki, with the goal of making it a better place for all of us to share help resources across the different programs: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Tips_and_Resources As more and more education programs start around the world, it's even more important to share resources across our countries and languages so that new programs are not reinventing the wheel and are instead building off of what others have already created. With that in mind, I'm encouraging anyone who has created good reference materials for instructors or students participating in an education program to add those resources to the page. All types of references are welcome — brochures, handouts, videos, online trainings, slide decks, etc. I welcome any additions to the page, as well as any feedback or ideas on how to make the page even more useful for all of us! LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 lda...@wikimedia.org ___ Education mailing list educat...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
Once I told to a guy from a secretary of education in Brazil that if he didn't remove the non-commertial restriction he could not have their resources used on Wikimedia projects with this restriction. I didn't need to argue too much, as I usually do, so it was the easiest negotiation I've ever saw. Although they still need to remove this restriction from old resources. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: The license will be at minimum free as in beer. It will be up to the negotiation skills of WMIL to turn the actual license into a free one that satisfies the Definitions from Freedom Defined. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
