Re: [Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2020-01-08 Thread Katherine Maher 
Hey folks,

Quick update here. You may have seen some press coverage already, but this
week, a group of technologists, non-profits, policymakers, and internet
governance folks filed in California to create a cooperative membership
corporation, whose purpose would be to administer the .ORG domain and its
revenues on behalf of global non-profits and in support of the open,
multistakeholder internet. The intention of the filing body is to
demonstrate to ICANN a viable, economically and technically sound
alternative to private commercial ownership. The name of the new
organization is the Cooperative Corporation of .ORG Registrants, or CCOR.

I've been asked to be one of the seven filing directors. The other filing
directors include the Executive Director of Packet Clearing House, a
non-profit internet research institute, the founding president of ICANN and
a former chair of ICANN, a former Member of the European Parliament and
digital rights advocate, among others.

We believe that this co-op structure is a good alternative to the intended
sale, which we believe has the potential to degrade the integrity and
stability of .ORG domains. It is an opportunity for the .ORG community to
create a representative governing entity, formalize stewardship of a key
piece of internet infrastructure, directly guide the allocation of .ORG
revenue, and improve the integrity and independence of the non-profit
internet. It aligns with the same values and governance that animate our
global Wikimedia communities, and our friends at organizations such as EFF,
the Internet Archive, and Mozilla have played key roles in its development.
The Foundation's Board of Trustees has also given their support as part of
our broader commitment to the non-commercial, open internet.

I also wanted to make sure to clarify the Foundation's commitment and my
own role in CCOR. The Wikimedia Foundation not funding this effort, and my
participation does not entail longer-term financial or other resource
support from the Foundation or movement. My own involvement would be a for
limited-term: if the effort is successful, my temporary directorship would
end after a period, I’ll rotate off and the co-op will elect someone new.
If the effort is not successful, the corresponding responsibilities are
null.

They're still working on getting the website up and will publish the
articles of incorporation once they do, in case folks want to take a look
for themselves.

Happy New Year!

Katherine

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:03 AM Florence Devouard 
wrote:

https://savedotorg.org



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I wrote up a short summary.  who other than ICANN has to approve this
sale?
http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture/


On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:13 PM Erik Moeller  wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this, Andy. This appears to be a major governance
> failure on the part of ICANN (sadly, not for the first time). I'm glad
> Wikimedia is among the first orgs on this list.
>
> I don't think it's too late to stop this, especially as all evidence
> points to corrupt inside wheeling-and-dealing. I would normally not
> link to El Reg, but the connections Kieren has dug up deserve further
> investigation by more reputable outlets.
>
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
>
> Utterly unacceptable attempt to enclose the commons. Please do help
> continue direct attention to this.
>
> https://savedotorg.org/
>
> Warmly,
>
> Erik
>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 10:45 AM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> I wrote up a short summary.  who other than ICANN has to approve this
> sale?
>
>

[Wikimedia-l] 今週の嬉しいことは何ですか？/ What's making you happy this week? (Week of 5 January 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Clover moss 
Hello colleagues,
I'm Clovermoss, and I'm sending out the email thread this week.
* From Clovermoss *
I have smiled several times this week, and I'm thankful for that. I'm
thankful for the start of another year and another decade. I have observed
and participated in a lot of WikiLove between editors wishing each other a
happy new year. I'm excited for what 2020 will bring, as I'm anticipating
some important milestones being reached this year in my life.

I saw an interesting thread on the mailing list

about
an astronaut editing Wikipedia from the ISS
, and I'm thankful that my curiousity
about Earth and beyond has been piqued. I was one of those kids who used to
dream about being an astronaut. I still think of that career path as
fascinating, although not one I am likely to take myself. I admire people
who follow their dreams, whatever those dreams happen to be.

* From Pine *
 "Email from the Analytics mailing list: "Introducing statistics for media
files

".

Hi everybody,

Just in time for the holidays, we're announcing the addition of Media
Requests to our metrics catalog. Over the last few months we've been
working on a dataset offering request numbers for every single image,
audio, video and document in the Wiki universe, since 2015.

This means we have 3 new metrics available in the Analytics Query Service:

* Media requests per referrer: e.g. how many images, audio, videos... have
been accessed from English Wikipedia in the last month? '''73 billion for
November.'''
* Media requests per file: e.g. how many hits did [[Christmas
tree#/media/File:Yggdrasil.jpg|this cool painting]] get in November? The
answer is 483,791 hits.
* Top files by media requests: e.g. what was the most popular video
yesterday, December 22nd? Fred Rogers testifying before the Senate
Subcommittee on Communications. Fun! You can check out the top 1000 media
files for any month or day, for any media type.

Media requests is, in terms of absolute numbers, a huge dataset, so the per
file and top metrics are still being loaded with data all the way to 2015.
We expect this loading to finish in mid January.

You can read more about this in Wikitech. As usual if you have any
questions about the dataset or the new metrics please send them our way
here on the list or via Phabricator.

Happy holidays!

Francisco + the A team
''Francisco Dans (él, he, 彼)''
Software Engineer, Analytics Team
Wikimedia Foundation


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 15, Issue 12 – 27 December 2019

2020-01-08 Thread Wikipedia Signpost 
>From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-12-27/From_the_editors

News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and
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Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia
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In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of
PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
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Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
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On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
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Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap
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